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Guido van Rossuma3309961993-07-28 09:05:47 +00001#ifndef Py_OBJECT_H
2#define Py_OBJECT_H
3#ifdef __cplusplus
4extern "C" {
5#endif
6
Guido van Rossumf70e43a1991-02-19 12:39:46 +00007
Guido van Rossum85a5fbb1990-10-14 12:07:46 +00008/* Object and type object interface */
9
10/*
Guido van Rossum85a5fbb1990-10-14 12:07:46 +000011Objects are structures allocated on the heap. Special rules apply to
12the use of objects to ensure they are properly garbage-collected.
13Objects are never allocated statically or on the stack; they must be
14accessed through special macros and functions only. (Type objects are
15exceptions to the first rule; the standard types are represented by
Tim Peters4be93d02002-07-07 19:59:50 +000016statically initialized type objects, although work on type/class unification
17for Python 2.2 made it possible to have heap-allocated type objects too).
Guido van Rossum85a5fbb1990-10-14 12:07:46 +000018
19An object has a 'reference count' that is increased or decreased when a
20pointer to the object is copied or deleted; when the reference count
21reaches zero there are no references to the object left and it can be
22removed from the heap.
23
24An object has a 'type' that determines what it represents and what kind
25of data it contains. An object's type is fixed when it is created.
26Types themselves are represented as objects; an object contains a
27pointer to the corresponding type object. The type itself has a type
28pointer pointing to the object representing the type 'type', which
29contains a pointer to itself!).
30
31Objects do not float around in memory; once allocated an object keeps
32the same size and address. Objects that must hold variable-size data
33can contain pointers to variable-size parts of the object. Not all
34objects of the same type have the same size; but the size cannot change
35after allocation. (These restrictions are made so a reference to an
36object can be simply a pointer -- moving an object would require
37updating all the pointers, and changing an object's size would require
38moving it if there was another object right next to it.)
39
Guido van Rossumcaa63801995-01-12 11:45:45 +000040Objects are always accessed through pointers of the type 'PyObject *'.
41The type 'PyObject' is a structure that only contains the reference count
Guido van Rossum85a5fbb1990-10-14 12:07:46 +000042and the type pointer. The actual memory allocated for an object
43contains other data that can only be accessed after casting the pointer
44to a pointer to a longer structure type. This longer type must start
Guido van Rossumcaa63801995-01-12 11:45:45 +000045with the reference count and type fields; the macro PyObject_HEAD should be
Thomas Wouters7e474022000-07-16 12:04:32 +000046used for this (to accommodate for future changes). The implementation
Guido van Rossum85a5fbb1990-10-14 12:07:46 +000047of a particular object type can cast the object pointer to the proper
48type and back.
49
50A standard interface exists for objects that contain an array of items
51whose size is determined when the object is allocated.
Guido van Rossum85a5fbb1990-10-14 12:07:46 +000052*/
53
Tim Peters34592512002-07-11 06:23:50 +000054/* Py_DEBUG implies Py_TRACE_REFS. */
55#if defined(Py_DEBUG) && !defined(Py_TRACE_REFS)
Tim Peters4be93d02002-07-07 19:59:50 +000056#define Py_TRACE_REFS
Tim Peters34592512002-07-11 06:23:50 +000057#endif
Guido van Rossum85a5fbb1990-10-14 12:07:46 +000058
Tim Peters4be93d02002-07-07 19:59:50 +000059/* Py_TRACE_REFS implies Py_REF_DEBUG. */
60#if defined(Py_TRACE_REFS) && !defined(Py_REF_DEBUG)
61#define Py_REF_DEBUG
62#endif
Guido van Rossum85a5fbb1990-10-14 12:07:46 +000063
Tim Peters4be93d02002-07-07 19:59:50 +000064#ifdef Py_TRACE_REFS
65/* Define pointers to support a doubly-linked list of all live heap objects. */
66#define _PyObject_HEAD_EXTRA \
67 struct _object *_ob_next; \
68 struct _object *_ob_prev;
69
70#define _PyObject_EXTRA_INIT 0, 0,
71
72#else
73#define _PyObject_HEAD_EXTRA
74#define _PyObject_EXTRA_INIT
75#endif
76
77/* PyObject_HEAD defines the initial segment of every PyObject. */
78#define PyObject_HEAD \
79 _PyObject_HEAD_EXTRA \
Martin v. Löwise36dce62006-03-01 04:02:43 +000080 Py_ssize_t ob_refcnt; \
Tim Peters4be93d02002-07-07 19:59:50 +000081 struct _typeobject *ob_type;
82
83#define PyObject_HEAD_INIT(type) \
84 _PyObject_EXTRA_INIT \
85 1, type,
86
Martin v. Löwis68192102007-07-21 06:55:02 +000087#define PyVarObject_HEAD_INIT(type, size) \
88 PyObject_HEAD_INIT(type) size,
89
Tim Peters4be93d02002-07-07 19:59:50 +000090/* PyObject_VAR_HEAD defines the initial segment of all variable-size
91 * container objects. These end with a declaration of an array with 1
92 * element, but enough space is malloc'ed so that the array actually
93 * has room for ob_size elements. Note that ob_size is an element count,
94 * not necessarily a byte count.
95 */
96#define PyObject_VAR_HEAD \
97 PyObject_HEAD \
Martin v. Löwis18e16552006-02-15 17:27:45 +000098 Py_ssize_t ob_size; /* Number of items in variable part */
99#define Py_INVALID_SIZE (Py_ssize_t)-1
Tim Peters803526b2002-07-07 05:13:56 +0000100
Tim Peters4be93d02002-07-07 19:59:50 +0000101/* Nothing is actually declared to be a PyObject, but every pointer to
102 * a Python object can be cast to a PyObject*. This is inheritance built
103 * by hand. Similarly every pointer to a variable-size Python object can,
104 * in addition, be cast to PyVarObject*.
105 */
Guido van Rossum85a5fbb1990-10-14 12:07:46 +0000106typedef struct _object {
Guido van Rossumcaa63801995-01-12 11:45:45 +0000107 PyObject_HEAD
108} PyObject;
Guido van Rossum85a5fbb1990-10-14 12:07:46 +0000109
110typedef struct {
Guido van Rossumcaa63801995-01-12 11:45:45 +0000111 PyObject_VAR_HEAD
Guido van Rossumd0c87ee1997-05-15 21:31:03 +0000112} PyVarObject;
Guido van Rossum85a5fbb1990-10-14 12:07:46 +0000113
Christian Heimese93237d2007-12-19 02:37:44 +0000114#define Py_REFCNT(ob) (((PyObject*)(ob))->ob_refcnt)
115#define Py_TYPE(ob) (((PyObject*)(ob))->ob_type)
116#define Py_SIZE(ob) (((PyVarObject*)(ob))->ob_size)
117
Guido van Rossum85a5fbb1990-10-14 12:07:46 +0000118/*
Guido van Rossum85a5fbb1990-10-14 12:07:46 +0000119Type objects contain a string containing the type name (to help somewhat
Tim Peters4be93d02002-07-07 19:59:50 +0000120in debugging), the allocation parameters (see PyObject_New() and
121PyObject_NewVar()),
122and methods for accessing objects of the type. Methods are optional, a
Guido van Rossum85a5fbb1990-10-14 12:07:46 +0000123nil pointer meaning that particular kind of access is not available for
Guido van Rossumcaa63801995-01-12 11:45:45 +0000124this type. The Py_DECREF() macro uses the tp_dealloc method without
Guido van Rossum85a5fbb1990-10-14 12:07:46 +0000125checking for a nil pointer; it should always be implemented except if
126the implementation can guarantee that the reference count will never
Tim Peters4be93d02002-07-07 19:59:50 +0000127reach zero (e.g., for statically allocated type objects).
Guido van Rossum85a5fbb1990-10-14 12:07:46 +0000128
129NB: the methods for certain type groups are now contained in separate
130method blocks.
131*/
132
Tim Peters9ace6bc2000-07-08 00:32:04 +0000133typedef PyObject * (*unaryfunc)(PyObject *);
134typedef PyObject * (*binaryfunc)(PyObject *, PyObject *);
135typedef PyObject * (*ternaryfunc)(PyObject *, PyObject *, PyObject *);
136typedef int (*inquiry)(PyObject *);
Martin v. Löwis18e16552006-02-15 17:27:45 +0000137typedef Py_ssize_t (*lenfunc)(PyObject *);
Tim Peters9ace6bc2000-07-08 00:32:04 +0000138typedef int (*coercion)(PyObject **, PyObject **);
Martin v. Löwis18e16552006-02-15 17:27:45 +0000139typedef PyObject *(*intargfunc)(PyObject *, int) Py_DEPRECATED(2.5);
140typedef PyObject *(*intintargfunc)(PyObject *, int, int) Py_DEPRECATED(2.5);
141typedef PyObject *(*ssizeargfunc)(PyObject *, Py_ssize_t);
142typedef PyObject *(*ssizessizeargfunc)(PyObject *, Py_ssize_t, Py_ssize_t);
Tim Peters9ace6bc2000-07-08 00:32:04 +0000143typedef int(*intobjargproc)(PyObject *, int, PyObject *);
144typedef int(*intintobjargproc)(PyObject *, int, int, PyObject *);
Martin v. Löwis18e16552006-02-15 17:27:45 +0000145typedef int(*ssizeobjargproc)(PyObject *, Py_ssize_t, PyObject *);
146typedef int(*ssizessizeobjargproc)(PyObject *, Py_ssize_t, Py_ssize_t, PyObject *);
Tim Peters9ace6bc2000-07-08 00:32:04 +0000147typedef int(*objobjargproc)(PyObject *, PyObject *, PyObject *);
Martin v. Löwis18e16552006-02-15 17:27:45 +0000148
Travis E. Oliphant33451d82008-03-17 17:36:12 +0000149
150
Martin v. Löwis18e16552006-02-15 17:27:45 +0000151/* int-based buffer interface */
Tim Peters9ace6bc2000-07-08 00:32:04 +0000152typedef int (*getreadbufferproc)(PyObject *, int, void **);
153typedef int (*getwritebufferproc)(PyObject *, int, void **);
154typedef int (*getsegcountproc)(PyObject *, int *);
Martin v. Löwis15e62742006-02-27 16:46:16 +0000155typedef int (*getcharbufferproc)(PyObject *, int, char **);
Martin v. Löwis18e16552006-02-15 17:27:45 +0000156/* ssize_t-based buffer interface */
157typedef Py_ssize_t (*readbufferproc)(PyObject *, Py_ssize_t, void **);
158typedef Py_ssize_t (*writebufferproc)(PyObject *, Py_ssize_t, void **);
159typedef Py_ssize_t (*segcountproc)(PyObject *, Py_ssize_t *);
Martin v. Löwis15e62742006-02-27 16:46:16 +0000160typedef Py_ssize_t (*charbufferproc)(PyObject *, Py_ssize_t, char **);
Martin v. Löwis18e16552006-02-15 17:27:45 +0000161
Travis E. Oliphant33451d82008-03-17 17:36:12 +0000162
Antoine Pitrou789be0c2009-04-02 21:18:34 +0000163/* Py3k buffer interface */
Travis E. Oliphant33451d82008-03-17 17:36:12 +0000164typedef struct bufferinfo {
Antoine Pitrou789be0c2009-04-02 21:18:34 +0000165 void *buf;
166 PyObject *obj; /* owned reference */
167 Py_ssize_t len;
168 Py_ssize_t itemsize; /* This is Py_ssize_t so it can be
169 pointed to by strides in simple case.*/
170 int readonly;
171 int ndim;
172 char *format;
173 Py_ssize_t *shape;
174 Py_ssize_t *strides;
175 Py_ssize_t *suboffsets;
176 Py_ssize_t smalltable[2]; /* static store for shape and strides of
177 mono-dimensional buffers. */
178 void *internal;
Travis E. Oliphant33451d82008-03-17 17:36:12 +0000179} Py_buffer;
180
181typedef int (*getbufferproc)(PyObject *, Py_buffer *, int);
182typedef void (*releasebufferproc)(PyObject *, Py_buffer *);
183
184 /* Flags for getting buffers */
185#define PyBUF_SIMPLE 0
186#define PyBUF_WRITABLE 0x0001
187/* we used to include an E, backwards compatible alias */
188#define PyBUF_WRITEABLE PyBUF_WRITABLE
Travis E. Oliphant33451d82008-03-17 17:36:12 +0000189#define PyBUF_FORMAT 0x0004
190#define PyBUF_ND 0x0008
191#define PyBUF_STRIDES (0x0010 | PyBUF_ND)
192#define PyBUF_C_CONTIGUOUS (0x0020 | PyBUF_STRIDES)
193#define PyBUF_F_CONTIGUOUS (0x0040 | PyBUF_STRIDES)
194#define PyBUF_ANY_CONTIGUOUS (0x0080 | PyBUF_STRIDES)
195#define PyBUF_INDIRECT (0x0100 | PyBUF_STRIDES)
196
197#define PyBUF_CONTIG (PyBUF_ND | PyBUF_WRITABLE)
198#define PyBUF_CONTIG_RO (PyBUF_ND)
Travis E. Oliphant33451d82008-03-17 17:36:12 +0000199
200#define PyBUF_STRIDED (PyBUF_STRIDES | PyBUF_WRITABLE)
201#define PyBUF_STRIDED_RO (PyBUF_STRIDES)
Travis E. Oliphant33451d82008-03-17 17:36:12 +0000202
203#define PyBUF_RECORDS (PyBUF_STRIDES | PyBUF_WRITABLE | PyBUF_FORMAT)
204#define PyBUF_RECORDS_RO (PyBUF_STRIDES | PyBUF_FORMAT)
Travis E. Oliphant33451d82008-03-17 17:36:12 +0000205
206#define PyBUF_FULL (PyBUF_INDIRECT | PyBUF_WRITABLE | PyBUF_FORMAT)
207#define PyBUF_FULL_RO (PyBUF_INDIRECT | PyBUF_FORMAT)
Travis E. Oliphant33451d82008-03-17 17:36:12 +0000208
209
210#define PyBUF_READ 0x100
211#define PyBUF_WRITE 0x200
212#define PyBUF_SHADOW 0x400
213/* end Py3k buffer interface */
214
Tim Peters9ace6bc2000-07-08 00:32:04 +0000215typedef int (*objobjproc)(PyObject *, PyObject *);
216typedef int (*visitproc)(PyObject *, void *);
217typedef int (*traverseproc)(PyObject *, visitproc, void *);
Guido van Rossumb6775db1994-08-01 11:34:53 +0000218
Guido van Rossum85a5fbb1990-10-14 12:07:46 +0000219typedef struct {
Guido van Rossum5f284ce2001-01-17 15:20:39 +0000220 /* For numbers without flag bit Py_TPFLAGS_CHECKTYPES set, all
221 arguments are guaranteed to be of the object's type (modulo
Tim Peters4be93d02002-07-07 19:59:50 +0000222 coercion hacks -- i.e. if the type's coercion function
Guido van Rossum5f284ce2001-01-17 15:20:39 +0000223 returns other types, then these are allowed as well). Numbers that
224 have the Py_TPFLAGS_CHECKTYPES flag bit set should check *both*
225 arguments for proper type and implement the necessary conversions
226 in the slot functions themselves. */
Neil Schemenauera7ed6942001-01-04 01:31:50 +0000227
Guido van Rossumb6775db1994-08-01 11:34:53 +0000228 binaryfunc nb_add;
229 binaryfunc nb_subtract;
230 binaryfunc nb_multiply;
231 binaryfunc nb_divide;
232 binaryfunc nb_remainder;
233 binaryfunc nb_divmod;
Guido van Rossum75abc631994-08-09 13:21:54 +0000234 ternaryfunc nb_power;
Guido van Rossumb6775db1994-08-01 11:34:53 +0000235 unaryfunc nb_negative;
236 unaryfunc nb_positive;
237 unaryfunc nb_absolute;
238 inquiry nb_nonzero;
239 unaryfunc nb_invert;
240 binaryfunc nb_lshift;
241 binaryfunc nb_rshift;
242 binaryfunc nb_and;
243 binaryfunc nb_xor;
244 binaryfunc nb_or;
245 coercion nb_coerce;
246 unaryfunc nb_int;
247 unaryfunc nb_long;
248 unaryfunc nb_float;
249 unaryfunc nb_oct;
250 unaryfunc nb_hex;
Fred Draked55657b2001-08-15 18:32:33 +0000251 /* Added in release 2.0 */
Thomas Woutersdd8dbdb2000-08-24 20:09:45 +0000252 binaryfunc nb_inplace_add;
253 binaryfunc nb_inplace_subtract;
254 binaryfunc nb_inplace_multiply;
255 binaryfunc nb_inplace_divide;
256 binaryfunc nb_inplace_remainder;
257 ternaryfunc nb_inplace_power;
258 binaryfunc nb_inplace_lshift;
259 binaryfunc nb_inplace_rshift;
260 binaryfunc nb_inplace_and;
261 binaryfunc nb_inplace_xor;
262 binaryfunc nb_inplace_or;
Guido van Rossum4668b002001-08-08 05:00:18 +0000263
Fred Draked55657b2001-08-15 18:32:33 +0000264 /* Added in release 2.2 */
Guido van Rossum4668b002001-08-08 05:00:18 +0000265 /* The following require the Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_CLASS flag */
266 binaryfunc nb_floor_divide;
267 binaryfunc nb_true_divide;
268 binaryfunc nb_inplace_floor_divide;
269 binaryfunc nb_inplace_true_divide;
Guido van Rossum38fff8c2006-03-07 18:50:55 +0000270
271 /* Added in release 2.5 */
Neal Norwitz8a87f5d2006-08-12 17:03:09 +0000272 unaryfunc nb_index;
Guido van Rossumcaa63801995-01-12 11:45:45 +0000273} PyNumberMethods;
Guido van Rossum85a5fbb1990-10-14 12:07:46 +0000274
275typedef struct {
Martin v. Löwis18e16552006-02-15 17:27:45 +0000276 lenfunc sq_length;
Guido van Rossumb6775db1994-08-01 11:34:53 +0000277 binaryfunc sq_concat;
Martin v. Löwis18e16552006-02-15 17:27:45 +0000278 ssizeargfunc sq_repeat;
279 ssizeargfunc sq_item;
280 ssizessizeargfunc sq_slice;
281 ssizeobjargproc sq_ass_item;
282 ssizessizeobjargproc sq_ass_slice;
Guido van Rossumcecb27a2000-02-28 15:00:40 +0000283 objobjproc sq_contains;
Fred Draked55657b2001-08-15 18:32:33 +0000284 /* Added in release 2.0 */
Thomas Woutersdd8dbdb2000-08-24 20:09:45 +0000285 binaryfunc sq_inplace_concat;
Martin v. Löwis18e16552006-02-15 17:27:45 +0000286 ssizeargfunc sq_inplace_repeat;
Guido van Rossumcaa63801995-01-12 11:45:45 +0000287} PySequenceMethods;
Guido van Rossum85a5fbb1990-10-14 12:07:46 +0000288
289typedef struct {
Martin v. Löwis18e16552006-02-15 17:27:45 +0000290 lenfunc mp_length;
Guido van Rossumb6775db1994-08-01 11:34:53 +0000291 binaryfunc mp_subscript;
292 objobjargproc mp_ass_subscript;
Guido van Rossumcaa63801995-01-12 11:45:45 +0000293} PyMappingMethods;
Guido van Rossum85a5fbb1990-10-14 12:07:46 +0000294
Guido van Rossumfdf95dd1997-05-05 22:15:02 +0000295typedef struct {
Martin v. Löwis18e16552006-02-15 17:27:45 +0000296 readbufferproc bf_getreadbuffer;
297 writebufferproc bf_getwritebuffer;
298 segcountproc bf_getsegcount;
299 charbufferproc bf_getcharbuffer;
Travis E. Oliphant33451d82008-03-17 17:36:12 +0000300 getbufferproc bf_getbuffer;
Guido van Rossum69ed1012008-08-19 20:13:02 +0000301 releasebufferproc bf_releasebuffer;
Guido van Rossumfdf95dd1997-05-05 22:15:02 +0000302} PyBufferProcs;
Tim Peters803526b2002-07-07 05:13:56 +0000303
Guido van Rossumfdf95dd1997-05-05 22:15:02 +0000304
Neil Schemenauerf6d1ea12002-04-12 01:57:06 +0000305typedef void (*freefunc)(void *);
Tim Peters9ace6bc2000-07-08 00:32:04 +0000306typedef void (*destructor)(PyObject *);
307typedef int (*printfunc)(PyObject *, FILE *, int);
Martin v. Löwis15e62742006-02-27 16:46:16 +0000308typedef PyObject *(*getattrfunc)(PyObject *, char *);
Tim Peters9ace6bc2000-07-08 00:32:04 +0000309typedef PyObject *(*getattrofunc)(PyObject *, PyObject *);
Martin v. Löwis15e62742006-02-27 16:46:16 +0000310typedef int (*setattrfunc)(PyObject *, char *, PyObject *);
Tim Peters9ace6bc2000-07-08 00:32:04 +0000311typedef int (*setattrofunc)(PyObject *, PyObject *, PyObject *);
312typedef int (*cmpfunc)(PyObject *, PyObject *);
313typedef PyObject *(*reprfunc)(PyObject *);
314typedef long (*hashfunc)(PyObject *);
Guido van Rossum5f284ce2001-01-17 15:20:39 +0000315typedef PyObject *(*richcmpfunc) (PyObject *, PyObject *, int);
Guido van Rossum59d1d2b2001-04-20 19:13:02 +0000316typedef PyObject *(*getiterfunc) (PyObject *);
Guido van Rossum213c7a62001-04-23 14:08:49 +0000317typedef PyObject *(*iternextfunc) (PyObject *);
Tim Peters6d6c1a32001-08-02 04:15:00 +0000318typedef PyObject *(*descrgetfunc) (PyObject *, PyObject *, PyObject *);
319typedef int (*descrsetfunc) (PyObject *, PyObject *, PyObject *);
320typedef int (*initproc)(PyObject *, PyObject *, PyObject *);
321typedef PyObject *(*newfunc)(struct _typeobject *, PyObject *, PyObject *);
Martin v. Löwis18e16552006-02-15 17:27:45 +0000322typedef PyObject *(*allocfunc)(struct _typeobject *, Py_ssize_t);
Guido van Rossumb6775db1994-08-01 11:34:53 +0000323
Guido van Rossum85a5fbb1990-10-14 12:07:46 +0000324typedef struct _typeobject {
Guido van Rossumcaa63801995-01-12 11:45:45 +0000325 PyObject_VAR_HEAD
Jeremy Hyltonaf68c872005-12-10 18:50:16 +0000326 const char *tp_name; /* For printing, in format "<module>.<name>" */
Martin v. Löwis97c65a82006-02-16 14:24:38 +0000327 Py_ssize_t tp_basicsize, tp_itemsize; /* For allocation */
Tim Peters803526b2002-07-07 05:13:56 +0000328
Guido van Rossum85a5fbb1990-10-14 12:07:46 +0000329 /* Methods to implement standard operations */
Tim Peters803526b2002-07-07 05:13:56 +0000330
Guido van Rossumb6775db1994-08-01 11:34:53 +0000331 destructor tp_dealloc;
332 printfunc tp_print;
333 getattrfunc tp_getattr;
334 setattrfunc tp_setattr;
335 cmpfunc tp_compare;
336 reprfunc tp_repr;
Tim Peters803526b2002-07-07 05:13:56 +0000337
Guido van Rossum85a5fbb1990-10-14 12:07:46 +0000338 /* Method suites for standard classes */
Tim Peters803526b2002-07-07 05:13:56 +0000339
Guido van Rossumcaa63801995-01-12 11:45:45 +0000340 PyNumberMethods *tp_as_number;
341 PySequenceMethods *tp_as_sequence;
342 PyMappingMethods *tp_as_mapping;
Guido van Rossum9bfef441993-03-29 10:43:31 +0000343
Fred Drake0e12bcd2000-03-21 16:14:47 +0000344 /* More standard operations (here for binary compatibility) */
Guido van Rossum9bfef441993-03-29 10:43:31 +0000345
Guido van Rossumb6775db1994-08-01 11:34:53 +0000346 hashfunc tp_hash;
Guido van Rossum884afd61995-07-18 14:21:06 +0000347 ternaryfunc tp_call;
Guido van Rossum6fde3901995-01-07 10:32:04 +0000348 reprfunc tp_str;
Guido van Rossum0693dd21996-08-09 20:48:52 +0000349 getattrofunc tp_getattro;
350 setattrofunc tp_setattro;
Guido van Rossum6fde3901995-01-07 10:32:04 +0000351
Guido van Rossumfdf95dd1997-05-05 22:15:02 +0000352 /* Functions to access object as input/output buffer */
353 PyBufferProcs *tp_as_buffer;
Tim Peters803526b2002-07-07 05:13:56 +0000354
Guido van Rossum36eef3c1998-10-08 02:10:56 +0000355 /* Flags to define presence of optional/expanded features */
356 long tp_flags;
Guido van Rossum6fde3901995-01-07 10:32:04 +0000357
Jeremy Hyltonaf68c872005-12-10 18:50:16 +0000358 const char *tp_doc; /* Documentation string */
Guido van Rossum6fde3901995-01-07 10:32:04 +0000359
Fred Draked55657b2001-08-15 18:32:33 +0000360 /* Assigned meaning in release 2.0 */
Jeremy Hylton8caad492000-06-23 14:18:11 +0000361 /* call function for all accessible objects */
362 traverseproc tp_traverse;
Tim Peters803526b2002-07-07 05:13:56 +0000363
Jeremy Hylton8caad492000-06-23 14:18:11 +0000364 /* delete references to contained objects */
365 inquiry tp_clear;
366
Fred Draked55657b2001-08-15 18:32:33 +0000367 /* Assigned meaning in release 2.1 */
Guido van Rossum5f284ce2001-01-17 15:20:39 +0000368 /* rich comparisons */
369 richcmpfunc tp_richcompare;
370
Fred Drake41deb1e2001-02-01 05:27:45 +0000371 /* weak reference enabler */
Martin v. Löwis97c65a82006-02-16 14:24:38 +0000372 Py_ssize_t tp_weaklistoffset;
Guido van Rossuma9c2d7a1998-04-23 19:16:44 +0000373
Fred Draked55657b2001-08-15 18:32:33 +0000374 /* Added in release 2.2 */
Guido van Rossum59d1d2b2001-04-20 19:13:02 +0000375 /* Iterators */
376 getiterfunc tp_iter;
Guido van Rossum213c7a62001-04-23 14:08:49 +0000377 iternextfunc tp_iternext;
Guido van Rossum59d1d2b2001-04-20 19:13:02 +0000378
Tim Peters6d6c1a32001-08-02 04:15:00 +0000379 /* Attribute descriptor and subclassing stuff */
380 struct PyMethodDef *tp_methods;
Guido van Rossum6f799372001-09-20 20:46:19 +0000381 struct PyMemberDef *tp_members;
Guido van Rossum32d34c82001-09-20 21:45:26 +0000382 struct PyGetSetDef *tp_getset;
Tim Peters6d6c1a32001-08-02 04:15:00 +0000383 struct _typeobject *tp_base;
384 PyObject *tp_dict;
385 descrgetfunc tp_descr_get;
386 descrsetfunc tp_descr_set;
Martin v. Löwis97c65a82006-02-16 14:24:38 +0000387 Py_ssize_t tp_dictoffset;
Tim Peters6d6c1a32001-08-02 04:15:00 +0000388 initproc tp_init;
389 allocfunc tp_alloc;
390 newfunc tp_new;
Neil Schemenauerf6d1ea12002-04-12 01:57:06 +0000391 freefunc tp_free; /* Low-level free-memory routine */
Guido van Rossum048eb752001-10-02 21:24:57 +0000392 inquiry tp_is_gc; /* For PyObject_IS_GC */
Tim Peters6d6c1a32001-08-02 04:15:00 +0000393 PyObject *tp_bases;
394 PyObject *tp_mro; /* method resolution order */
Guido van Rossum687ae002001-10-15 22:03:32 +0000395 PyObject *tp_cache;
Guido van Rossum1c450732001-10-08 15:18:27 +0000396 PyObject *tp_subclasses;
397 PyObject *tp_weaklist;
Guido van Rossumfebd61d2002-08-08 20:55:20 +0000398 destructor tp_del;
Tim Peters6d6c1a32001-08-02 04:15:00 +0000399
Amaury Forgeot d'Arce4c270c2008-01-14 00:29:41 +0000400 /* Type attribute cache version tag. Added in version 2.6 */
401 unsigned int tp_version_tag;
402
Sjoerd Mullendera9c3c221993-10-11 12:54:31 +0000403#ifdef COUNT_ALLOCS
Guido van Rossum59d1d2b2001-04-20 19:13:02 +0000404 /* these must be last and never explicitly initialized */
Martin v. Löwise36dce62006-03-01 04:02:43 +0000405 Py_ssize_t tp_allocs;
406 Py_ssize_t tp_frees;
407 Py_ssize_t tp_maxalloc;
Martin v. Löwis45294a92006-04-18 06:24:08 +0000408 struct _typeobject *tp_prev;
Sjoerd Mullendera9c3c221993-10-11 12:54:31 +0000409 struct _typeobject *tp_next;
410#endif
Guido van Rossumcaa63801995-01-12 11:45:45 +0000411} PyTypeObject;
Guido van Rossum85a5fbb1990-10-14 12:07:46 +0000412
Guido van Rossum85a5fbb1990-10-14 12:07:46 +0000413
Guido van Rossume5c691a2003-03-07 15:13:17 +0000414/* The *real* layout of a type object when allocated on the heap */
415typedef struct _heaptypeobject {
416 /* Note: there's a dependency on the order of these members
417 in slotptr() in typeobject.c . */
Georg Brandlc255c7b2006-02-20 22:27:28 +0000418 PyTypeObject ht_type;
Guido van Rossume5c691a2003-03-07 15:13:17 +0000419 PyNumberMethods as_number;
420 PyMappingMethods as_mapping;
421 PySequenceMethods as_sequence; /* as_sequence comes after as_mapping,
422 so that the mapping wins when both
423 the mapping and the sequence define
424 a given operator (e.g. __getitem__).
425 see add_operators() in typeobject.c . */
426 PyBufferProcs as_buffer;
Georg Brandlc255c7b2006-02-20 22:27:28 +0000427 PyObject *ht_name, *ht_slots;
Guido van Rossume5c691a2003-03-07 15:13:17 +0000428 /* here are optional user slots, followed by the members. */
429} PyHeapTypeObject;
430
431/* access macro to the members which are floating "behind" the object */
432#define PyHeapType_GET_MEMBERS(etype) \
Christian Heimese93237d2007-12-19 02:37:44 +0000433 ((PyMemberDef *)(((char *)etype) + Py_TYPE(etype)->tp_basicsize))
Guido van Rossume5c691a2003-03-07 15:13:17 +0000434
435
Tim Peters6d6c1a32001-08-02 04:15:00 +0000436/* Generic type check */
Mark Hammonda2905272002-07-29 13:42:14 +0000437PyAPI_FUNC(int) PyType_IsSubtype(PyTypeObject *, PyTypeObject *);
Tim Peters6d6c1a32001-08-02 04:15:00 +0000438#define PyObject_TypeCheck(ob, tp) \
Christian Heimese93237d2007-12-19 02:37:44 +0000439 (Py_TYPE(ob) == (tp) || PyType_IsSubtype(Py_TYPE(ob), (tp)))
Tim Peters6d6c1a32001-08-02 04:15:00 +0000440
Mark Hammonda2905272002-07-29 13:42:14 +0000441PyAPI_DATA(PyTypeObject) PyType_Type; /* built-in 'type' */
442PyAPI_DATA(PyTypeObject) PyBaseObject_Type; /* built-in 'object' */
443PyAPI_DATA(PyTypeObject) PySuper_Type; /* built-in 'super' */
Tim Peters6d6c1a32001-08-02 04:15:00 +0000444
Neal Norwitzee3a1b52007-02-25 19:44:48 +0000445#define PyType_Check(op) \
Christian Heimese93237d2007-12-19 02:37:44 +0000446 PyType_FastSubclass(Py_TYPE(op), Py_TPFLAGS_TYPE_SUBCLASS)
447#define PyType_CheckExact(op) (Py_TYPE(op) == &PyType_Type)
Tim Peters6d6c1a32001-08-02 04:15:00 +0000448
Mark Hammonda2905272002-07-29 13:42:14 +0000449PyAPI_FUNC(int) PyType_Ready(PyTypeObject *);
Martin v. Löwis18e16552006-02-15 17:27:45 +0000450PyAPI_FUNC(PyObject *) PyType_GenericAlloc(PyTypeObject *, Py_ssize_t);
Mark Hammonda2905272002-07-29 13:42:14 +0000451PyAPI_FUNC(PyObject *) PyType_GenericNew(PyTypeObject *,
Tim Peters6d6c1a32001-08-02 04:15:00 +0000452 PyObject *, PyObject *);
Mark Hammonda2905272002-07-29 13:42:14 +0000453PyAPI_FUNC(PyObject *) _PyType_Lookup(PyTypeObject *, PyObject *);
Christian Heimes908caac2008-01-27 23:34:59 +0000454PyAPI_FUNC(unsigned int) PyType_ClearCache(void);
Georg Brandl74a1dea2008-05-28 11:21:39 +0000455PyAPI_FUNC(void) PyType_Modified(PyTypeObject *);
Guido van Rossum85a5fbb1990-10-14 12:07:46 +0000456
Guido van Rossum3f5da241990-12-20 15:06:42 +0000457/* Generic operations on objects */
Mark Hammonda2905272002-07-29 13:42:14 +0000458PyAPI_FUNC(int) PyObject_Print(PyObject *, FILE *, int);
459PyAPI_FUNC(void) _PyObject_Dump(PyObject *);
460PyAPI_FUNC(PyObject *) PyObject_Repr(PyObject *);
Neil Schemenauercf52c072005-08-12 17:34:58 +0000461PyAPI_FUNC(PyObject *) _PyObject_Str(PyObject *);
Mark Hammonda2905272002-07-29 13:42:14 +0000462PyAPI_FUNC(PyObject *) PyObject_Str(PyObject *);
Benjamin Peterson14cb6bc2008-08-26 17:08:40 +0000463#define PyObject_Bytes PyObject_Str
Martin v. Löwis339d0f72001-08-17 18:39:25 +0000464#ifdef Py_USING_UNICODE
Mark Hammonda2905272002-07-29 13:42:14 +0000465PyAPI_FUNC(PyObject *) PyObject_Unicode(PyObject *);
Martin v. Löwis339d0f72001-08-17 18:39:25 +0000466#endif
Mark Hammonda2905272002-07-29 13:42:14 +0000467PyAPI_FUNC(int) PyObject_Compare(PyObject *, PyObject *);
468PyAPI_FUNC(PyObject *) PyObject_RichCompare(PyObject *, PyObject *, int);
469PyAPI_FUNC(int) PyObject_RichCompareBool(PyObject *, PyObject *, int);
Jeremy Hyltonaf68c872005-12-10 18:50:16 +0000470PyAPI_FUNC(PyObject *) PyObject_GetAttrString(PyObject *, const char *);
471PyAPI_FUNC(int) PyObject_SetAttrString(PyObject *, const char *, PyObject *);
472PyAPI_FUNC(int) PyObject_HasAttrString(PyObject *, const char *);
Mark Hammonda2905272002-07-29 13:42:14 +0000473PyAPI_FUNC(PyObject *) PyObject_GetAttr(PyObject *, PyObject *);
474PyAPI_FUNC(int) PyObject_SetAttr(PyObject *, PyObject *, PyObject *);
475PyAPI_FUNC(int) PyObject_HasAttr(PyObject *, PyObject *);
476PyAPI_FUNC(PyObject **) _PyObject_GetDictPtr(PyObject *);
Raymond Hettinger1da1dbf2003-03-17 19:46:11 +0000477PyAPI_FUNC(PyObject *) PyObject_SelfIter(PyObject *);
Amaury Forgeot d'Arca40d5732009-01-12 23:36:55 +0000478PyAPI_FUNC(PyObject *) _PyObject_NextNotImplemented(PyObject *);
Mark Hammonda2905272002-07-29 13:42:14 +0000479PyAPI_FUNC(PyObject *) PyObject_GenericGetAttr(PyObject *, PyObject *);
480PyAPI_FUNC(int) PyObject_GenericSetAttr(PyObject *,
Tim Peters6d6c1a32001-08-02 04:15:00 +0000481 PyObject *, PyObject *);
Mark Hammonda2905272002-07-29 13:42:14 +0000482PyAPI_FUNC(long) PyObject_Hash(PyObject *);
Nick Coghlan53663a62008-07-15 14:27:37 +0000483PyAPI_FUNC(long) PyObject_HashNotImplemented(PyObject *);
Mark Hammonda2905272002-07-29 13:42:14 +0000484PyAPI_FUNC(int) PyObject_IsTrue(PyObject *);
485PyAPI_FUNC(int) PyObject_Not(PyObject *);
486PyAPI_FUNC(int) PyCallable_Check(PyObject *);
487PyAPI_FUNC(int) PyNumber_Coerce(PyObject **, PyObject **);
488PyAPI_FUNC(int) PyNumber_CoerceEx(PyObject **, PyObject **);
Guido van Rossum85a5fbb1990-10-14 12:07:46 +0000489
Mark Hammonda2905272002-07-29 13:42:14 +0000490PyAPI_FUNC(void) PyObject_ClearWeakRefs(PyObject *);
Fred Drake41deb1e2001-02-01 05:27:45 +0000491
Guido van Rossumab3b0342001-09-18 20:38:53 +0000492/* A slot function whose address we need to compare */
493extern int _PyObject_SlotCompare(PyObject *, PyObject *);
494
495
Tim Peters7eea37e2001-09-04 22:08:56 +0000496/* PyObject_Dir(obj) acts like Python __builtin__.dir(obj), returning a
497 list of strings. PyObject_Dir(NULL) is like __builtin__.dir(),
498 returning the names of the current locals. In this case, if there are
499 no current locals, NULL is returned, and PyErr_Occurred() is false.
500*/
Mark Hammonda2905272002-07-29 13:42:14 +0000501PyAPI_FUNC(PyObject *) PyObject_Dir(PyObject *);
Tim Peters7eea37e2001-09-04 22:08:56 +0000502
503
Guido van Rossum26d4ac31998-04-10 22:32:24 +0000504/* Helpers for printing recursive container types */
Mark Hammonda2905272002-07-29 13:42:14 +0000505PyAPI_FUNC(int) Py_ReprEnter(PyObject *);
506PyAPI_FUNC(void) Py_ReprLeave(PyObject *);
Guido van Rossum26d4ac31998-04-10 22:32:24 +0000507
Fred Drake13634cf2000-06-29 19:17:04 +0000508/* Helpers for hash functions */
Mark Hammonda2905272002-07-29 13:42:14 +0000509PyAPI_FUNC(long) _Py_HashDouble(double);
510PyAPI_FUNC(long) _Py_HashPointer(void*);
Fred Drake13634cf2000-06-29 19:17:04 +0000511
Jeremy Hylton483638c2001-02-01 20:20:45 +0000512/* Helper for passing objects to printf and the like */
Gregory P. Smithdd96db62008-06-09 04:58:54 +0000513#define PyObject_REPR(obj) PyString_AS_STRING(PyObject_Repr(obj))
Jeremy Hylton483638c2001-02-01 20:20:45 +0000514
Guido van Rossum85a5fbb1990-10-14 12:07:46 +0000515/* Flag bits for printing: */
Guido van Rossumcaa63801995-01-12 11:45:45 +0000516#define Py_PRINT_RAW 1 /* No string quotes etc. */
Guido van Rossum85a5fbb1990-10-14 12:07:46 +0000517
518/*
Tim Peters4be93d02002-07-07 19:59:50 +0000519`Type flags (tp_flags)
Guido van Rossum36eef3c1998-10-08 02:10:56 +0000520
521These flags are used to extend the type structure in a backwards-compatible
522fashion. Extensions can use the flags to indicate (and test) when a given
523type structure contains a new feature. The Python core will use these when
524introducing new functionality between major revisions (to avoid mid-version
525changes in the PYTHON_API_VERSION).
526
527Arbitration of the flag bit positions will need to be coordinated among
528all extension writers who publically release their extensions (this will
529be fewer than you might expect!)..
530
531Python 1.5.2 introduced the bf_getcharbuffer slot into PyBufferProcs.
532
533Type definitions should use Py_TPFLAGS_DEFAULT for their tp_flags value.
534
535Code can use PyType_HasFeature(type_ob, flag_value) to test whether the
536given type object has a specified feature.
Guido van Rossum69ed1012008-08-19 20:13:02 +0000537
538NOTE: when building the core, Py_TPFLAGS_DEFAULT includes
539Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_VERSION_TAG; outside the core, it doesn't. This is so
540that extensions that modify tp_dict of their own types directly don't
541break, since this was allowed in 2.5. In 3.0 they will have to
542manually remove this flag though!
Guido van Rossum36eef3c1998-10-08 02:10:56 +0000543*/
544
545/* PyBufferProcs contains bf_getcharbuffer */
546#define Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_GETCHARBUFFER (1L<<0)
547
Guido van Rossumcecb27a2000-02-28 15:00:40 +0000548/* PySequenceMethods contains sq_contains */
549#define Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_SEQUENCE_IN (1L<<1)
550
Neil Schemenauer31ec1422001-08-29 23:46:35 +0000551/* This is here for backwards compatibility. Extensions that use the old GC
552 * API will still compile but the objects will not be tracked by the GC. */
553#define Py_TPFLAGS_GC 0 /* used to be (1L<<2) */
Jeremy Hyltond08b4c42000-06-23 19:37:02 +0000554
Thomas Woutersdd8dbdb2000-08-24 20:09:45 +0000555/* PySequenceMethods and PyNumberMethods contain in-place operators */
556#define Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_INPLACEOPS (1L<<3)
557
Neil Schemenauera7ed6942001-01-04 01:31:50 +0000558/* PyNumberMethods do their own coercion */
Guido van Rossum5f284ce2001-01-17 15:20:39 +0000559#define Py_TPFLAGS_CHECKTYPES (1L<<4)
Neil Schemenauera7ed6942001-01-04 01:31:50 +0000560
Guido van Rossum59d1d2b2001-04-20 19:13:02 +0000561/* tp_richcompare is defined */
Guido van Rossumbacca542001-01-24 22:13:48 +0000562#define Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_RICHCOMPARE (1L<<5)
563
Fred Drake033f3122001-02-02 18:17:30 +0000564/* Objects which are weakly referencable if their tp_weaklistoffset is >0 */
Fred Drake033f3122001-02-02 18:17:30 +0000565#define Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_WEAKREFS (1L<<6)
566
Guido van Rossum59d1d2b2001-04-20 19:13:02 +0000567/* tp_iter is defined */
568#define Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_ITER (1L<<7)
569
Guido van Rossum4668b002001-08-08 05:00:18 +0000570/* New members introduced by Python 2.2 exist */
Tim Peters6d6c1a32001-08-02 04:15:00 +0000571#define Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_CLASS (1L<<8)
572
573/* Set if the type object is dynamically allocated */
574#define Py_TPFLAGS_HEAPTYPE (1L<<9)
575
576/* Set if the type allows subclassing */
577#define Py_TPFLAGS_BASETYPE (1L<<10)
578
Guido van Rossum9b9c9722001-08-10 17:37:02 +0000579/* Set if the type is 'ready' -- fully initialized */
580#define Py_TPFLAGS_READY (1L<<12)
581
582/* Set while the type is being 'readied', to prevent recursive ready calls */
583#define Py_TPFLAGS_READYING (1L<<13)
584
Neil Schemenauer31ec1422001-08-29 23:46:35 +0000585/* Objects support garbage collection (see objimp.h) */
Neil Schemenauer31ec1422001-08-29 23:46:35 +0000586#define Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_GC (1L<<14)
Neil Schemenauer31ec1422001-08-29 23:46:35 +0000587
Guido van Rossum38fff8c2006-03-07 18:50:55 +0000588/* These two bits are preserved for Stackless Python, next after this is 17 */
Christian Tismer6695ba82003-05-20 15:14:31 +0000589#ifdef STACKLESS
Christian Tismer661a9e32003-05-23 12:47:36 +0000590#define Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_STACKLESS_EXTENSION (3L<<15)
Christian Tismer6695ba82003-05-20 15:14:31 +0000591#else
Christian Tismerc26ff412003-05-23 03:33:35 +0000592#define Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_STACKLESS_EXTENSION 0
Christian Tismer6695ba82003-05-20 15:14:31 +0000593#endif
594
Guido van Rossum38fff8c2006-03-07 18:50:55 +0000595/* Objects support nb_index in PyNumberMethods */
596#define Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_INDEX (1L<<17)
597
Amaury Forgeot d'Arce4c270c2008-01-14 00:29:41 +0000598/* Objects support type attribute cache */
599#define Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_VERSION_TAG (1L<<18)
600#define Py_TPFLAGS_VALID_VERSION_TAG (1L<<19)
601
Jeffrey Yasskin960b9b72008-02-28 04:45:36 +0000602/* Type is abstract and cannot be instantiated */
603#define Py_TPFLAGS_IS_ABSTRACT (1L<<20)
604
Travis E. Oliphant33451d82008-03-17 17:36:12 +0000605/* Has the new buffer protocol */
606#define Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_NEWBUFFER (1L<<21)
607
Neal Norwitzee3a1b52007-02-25 19:44:48 +0000608/* These flags are used to determine if a type is a subclass. */
609#define Py_TPFLAGS_INT_SUBCLASS (1L<<23)
610#define Py_TPFLAGS_LONG_SUBCLASS (1L<<24)
611#define Py_TPFLAGS_LIST_SUBCLASS (1L<<25)
612#define Py_TPFLAGS_TUPLE_SUBCLASS (1L<<26)
Gregory P. Smithdd96db62008-06-09 04:58:54 +0000613#define Py_TPFLAGS_STRING_SUBCLASS (1L<<27)
Neal Norwitzee3a1b52007-02-25 19:44:48 +0000614#define Py_TPFLAGS_UNICODE_SUBCLASS (1L<<28)
615#define Py_TPFLAGS_DICT_SUBCLASS (1L<<29)
616#define Py_TPFLAGS_BASE_EXC_SUBCLASS (1L<<30)
617#define Py_TPFLAGS_TYPE_SUBCLASS (1L<<31)
618
Guido van Rossum69ed1012008-08-19 20:13:02 +0000619#define Py_TPFLAGS_DEFAULT_EXTERNAL ( \
Guido van Rossumbacca542001-01-24 22:13:48 +0000620 Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_GETCHARBUFFER | \
Thomas Woutersdd8dbdb2000-08-24 20:09:45 +0000621 Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_SEQUENCE_IN | \
Guido van Rossumbacca542001-01-24 22:13:48 +0000622 Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_INPLACEOPS | \
623 Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_RICHCOMPARE | \
Fred Drake033f3122001-02-02 18:17:30 +0000624 Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_WEAKREFS | \
Guido van Rossum59d1d2b2001-04-20 19:13:02 +0000625 Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_ITER | \
Tim Peters6d6c1a32001-08-02 04:15:00 +0000626 Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_CLASS | \
Christian Tismerc26ff412003-05-23 03:33:35 +0000627 Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_STACKLESS_EXTENSION | \
Guido van Rossum38fff8c2006-03-07 18:50:55 +0000628 Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_INDEX | \
Guido van Rossum69ed1012008-08-19 20:13:02 +0000629 0)
630#define Py_TPFLAGS_DEFAULT_CORE (Py_TPFLAGS_DEFAULT_EXTERNAL | \
631 Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_VERSION_TAG)
632
633#ifdef Py_BUILD_CORE
634#define Py_TPFLAGS_DEFAULT Py_TPFLAGS_DEFAULT_CORE
635#else
636#define Py_TPFLAGS_DEFAULT Py_TPFLAGS_DEFAULT_EXTERNAL
637#endif
Guido van Rossum36eef3c1998-10-08 02:10:56 +0000638
639#define PyType_HasFeature(t,f) (((t)->tp_flags & (f)) != 0)
Neal Norwitzee3a1b52007-02-25 19:44:48 +0000640#define PyType_FastSubclass(t,f) PyType_HasFeature(t,f)
Guido van Rossum36eef3c1998-10-08 02:10:56 +0000641
642
643/*
Guido van Rossumcaa63801995-01-12 11:45:45 +0000644The macros Py_INCREF(op) and Py_DECREF(op) are used to increment or decrement
Tim Peters4be93d02002-07-07 19:59:50 +0000645reference counts. Py_DECREF calls the object's deallocator function when
646the refcount falls to 0; for
Guido van Rossum85a5fbb1990-10-14 12:07:46 +0000647objects that don't contain references to other objects or heap memory
648this can be the standard function free(). Both macros can be used
Tim Peters4be93d02002-07-07 19:59:50 +0000649wherever a void expression is allowed. The argument must not be a
Benjamin Petersona45ab9f2008-03-28 23:11:01 +0000650NULL pointer. If it may be NULL, use Py_XINCREF/Py_XDECREF instead.
Tim Peters4be93d02002-07-07 19:59:50 +0000651The macro _Py_NewReference(op) initialize reference counts to 1, and
652in special builds (Py_REF_DEBUG, Py_TRACE_REFS) performs additional
653bookkeeping appropriate to the special build.
Guido van Rossum85a5fbb1990-10-14 12:07:46 +0000654
655We assume that the reference count field can never overflow; this can
Tim Peters4be93d02002-07-07 19:59:50 +0000656be proven when the size of the field is the same as the pointer size, so
657we ignore the possibility. Provided a C int is at least 32 bits (which
658is implicitly assumed in many parts of this code), that's enough for
659about 2**31 references to an object.
Guido van Rossum85a5fbb1990-10-14 12:07:46 +0000660
Tim Peters4be93d02002-07-07 19:59:50 +0000661XXX The following became out of date in Python 2.2, but I'm not sure
662XXX what the full truth is now. Certainly, heap-allocated type objects
663XXX can and should be deallocated.
Guido van Rossum85a5fbb1990-10-14 12:07:46 +0000664Type objects should never be deallocated; the type pointer in an object
665is not considered to be a reference to the type object, to save
666complications in the deallocation function. (This is actually a
667decision that's up to the implementer of each new type so if you want,
668you can count such references to the type object.)
669
Guido van Rossumcaa63801995-01-12 11:45:45 +0000670*** WARNING*** The Py_DECREF macro must have a side-effect-free argument
Guido van Rossum85a5fbb1990-10-14 12:07:46 +0000671since it may evaluate its argument multiple times. (The alternative
672would be to mace it a proper function or assign it to a global temporary
673variable first, both of which are slower; and in a multi-threaded
674environment the global variable trick is not safe.)
675*/
676
Tim Peters34592512002-07-11 06:23:50 +0000677/* First define a pile of simple helper macros, one set per special
678 * build symbol. These either expand to the obvious things, or to
679 * nothing at all when the special mode isn't in effect. The main
680 * macros can later be defined just once then, yet expand to different
681 * things depending on which special build options are and aren't in effect.
682 * Trust me <wink>: while painful, this is 20x easier to understand than,
683 * e.g, defining _Py_NewReference five different times in a maze of nested
684 * #ifdefs (we used to do that -- it was impenetrable).
685 */
Tim Peters4be93d02002-07-07 19:59:50 +0000686#ifdef Py_REF_DEBUG
Neal Norwitz4281cef2006-03-04 19:58:13 +0000687PyAPI_DATA(Py_ssize_t) _Py_RefTotal;
Mark Hammonda2905272002-07-29 13:42:14 +0000688PyAPI_FUNC(void) _Py_NegativeRefcount(const char *fname,
Tim Peters7c321a82002-07-09 02:57:01 +0000689 int lineno, PyObject *op);
Armin Rigoe1709372006-04-12 17:06:05 +0000690PyAPI_FUNC(PyObject *) _PyDict_Dummy(void);
691PyAPI_FUNC(PyObject *) _PySet_Dummy(void);
692PyAPI_FUNC(Py_ssize_t) _Py_GetRefTotal(void);
Tim Peters34592512002-07-11 06:23:50 +0000693#define _Py_INC_REFTOTAL _Py_RefTotal++
694#define _Py_DEC_REFTOTAL _Py_RefTotal--
695#define _Py_REF_DEBUG_COMMA ,
696#define _Py_CHECK_REFCNT(OP) \
Martin v. Löwis68192102007-07-21 06:55:02 +0000697{ if (((PyObject*)OP)->ob_refcnt < 0) \
Tim Peters7c321a82002-07-09 02:57:01 +0000698 _Py_NegativeRefcount(__FILE__, __LINE__, \
699 (PyObject *)(OP)); \
700}
Tim Peters4be93d02002-07-07 19:59:50 +0000701#else
Tim Peters34592512002-07-11 06:23:50 +0000702#define _Py_INC_REFTOTAL
703#define _Py_DEC_REFTOTAL
704#define _Py_REF_DEBUG_COMMA
705#define _Py_CHECK_REFCNT(OP) /* a semicolon */;
Tim Peters57f4ddd2002-07-10 06:34:15 +0000706#endif /* Py_REF_DEBUG */
Guido van Rossum85a5fbb1990-10-14 12:07:46 +0000707
Sjoerd Mullendera9c3c221993-10-11 12:54:31 +0000708#ifdef COUNT_ALLOCS
Mark Hammonda2905272002-07-29 13:42:14 +0000709PyAPI_FUNC(void) inc_count(PyTypeObject *);
Martin v. Löwis45294a92006-04-18 06:24:08 +0000710PyAPI_FUNC(void) dec_count(PyTypeObject *);
Christian Heimese93237d2007-12-19 02:37:44 +0000711#define _Py_INC_TPALLOCS(OP) inc_count(Py_TYPE(OP))
712#define _Py_INC_TPFREES(OP) dec_count(Py_TYPE(OP))
713#define _Py_DEC_TPFREES(OP) Py_TYPE(OP)->tp_frees--
Tim Peters34592512002-07-11 06:23:50 +0000714#define _Py_COUNT_ALLOCS_COMMA ,
Sjoerd Mullendera9c3c221993-10-11 12:54:31 +0000715#else
Tim Peters34592512002-07-11 06:23:50 +0000716#define _Py_INC_TPALLOCS(OP)
717#define _Py_INC_TPFREES(OP)
718#define _Py_DEC_TPFREES(OP)
719#define _Py_COUNT_ALLOCS_COMMA
Tim Peters57f4ddd2002-07-10 06:34:15 +0000720#endif /* COUNT_ALLOCS */
Tim Peters4be93d02002-07-07 19:59:50 +0000721
722#ifdef Py_TRACE_REFS
723/* Py_TRACE_REFS is such major surgery that we call external routines. */
Mark Hammonda2905272002-07-29 13:42:14 +0000724PyAPI_FUNC(void) _Py_NewReference(PyObject *);
725PyAPI_FUNC(void) _Py_ForgetReference(PyObject *);
726PyAPI_FUNC(void) _Py_Dealloc(PyObject *);
727PyAPI_FUNC(void) _Py_PrintReferences(FILE *);
Tim Peters269b2a62003-04-17 19:52:29 +0000728PyAPI_FUNC(void) _Py_PrintReferenceAddresses(FILE *);
Tim Peters7571a0f2003-03-23 17:52:28 +0000729PyAPI_FUNC(void) _Py_AddToAllObjects(PyObject *, int force);
Tim Peters4be93d02002-07-07 19:59:50 +0000730
731#else
732/* Without Py_TRACE_REFS, there's little enough to do that we expand code
733 * inline.
734 */
Tim Peters34592512002-07-11 06:23:50 +0000735#define _Py_NewReference(op) ( \
736 _Py_INC_TPALLOCS(op) _Py_COUNT_ALLOCS_COMMA \
737 _Py_INC_REFTOTAL _Py_REF_DEBUG_COMMA \
Christian Heimese93237d2007-12-19 02:37:44 +0000738 Py_REFCNT(op) = 1)
Tim Peters4be93d02002-07-07 19:59:50 +0000739
Tim Peters34592512002-07-11 06:23:50 +0000740#define _Py_ForgetReference(op) _Py_INC_TPFREES(op)
Tim Peters4be93d02002-07-07 19:59:50 +0000741
Tim Peters57f4ddd2002-07-10 06:34:15 +0000742#define _Py_Dealloc(op) ( \
Tim Peters34592512002-07-11 06:23:50 +0000743 _Py_INC_TPFREES(op) _Py_COUNT_ALLOCS_COMMA \
Christian Heimese93237d2007-12-19 02:37:44 +0000744 (*Py_TYPE(op)->tp_dealloc)((PyObject *)(op)))
Guido van Rossum60be1db1996-05-22 16:33:22 +0000745#endif /* !Py_TRACE_REFS */
746
Tim Peters34592512002-07-11 06:23:50 +0000747#define Py_INCREF(op) ( \
748 _Py_INC_REFTOTAL _Py_REF_DEBUG_COMMA \
Martin v. Löwis68192102007-07-21 06:55:02 +0000749 ((PyObject*)(op))->ob_refcnt++)
Tim Peters4be93d02002-07-07 19:59:50 +0000750
Tim Peters34592512002-07-11 06:23:50 +0000751#define Py_DECREF(op) \
Matthias Klose0610e082009-04-05 12:43:08 +0000752 do { \
753 if (_Py_DEC_REFTOTAL _Py_REF_DEBUG_COMMA \
754 --((PyObject*)(op))->ob_refcnt != 0) \
755 _Py_CHECK_REFCNT(op) \
756 else \
757 _Py_Dealloc((PyObject *)(op)); \
758 } while (0)
Guido van Rossum85a5fbb1990-10-14 12:07:46 +0000759
Tim Peters9d2ced82006-04-15 02:14:03 +0000760/* Safely decref `op` and set `op` to NULL, especially useful in tp_clear
761 * and tp_dealloc implementatons.
762 *
763 * Note that "the obvious" code can be deadly:
764 *
765 * Py_XDECREF(op);
766 * op = NULL;
767 *
768 * Typically, `op` is something like self->containee, and `self` is done
769 * using its `containee` member. In the code sequence above, suppose
770 * `containee` is non-NULL with a refcount of 1. Its refcount falls to
771 * 0 on the first line, which can trigger an arbitrary amount of code,
772 * possibly including finalizers (like __del__ methods or weakref callbacks)
773 * coded in Python, which in turn can release the GIL and allow other threads
774 * to run, etc. Such code may even invoke methods of `self` again, or cause
775 * cyclic gc to trigger, but-- oops! --self->containee still points to the
776 * object being torn down, and it may be in an insane state while being torn
777 * down. This has in fact been a rich historic source of miserable (rare &
778 * hard-to-diagnose) segfaulting (and other) bugs.
779 *
780 * The safe way is:
781 *
782 * Py_CLEAR(op);
783 *
784 * That arranges to set `op` to NULL _before_ decref'ing, so that any code
785 * triggered as a side-effect of `op` getting torn down no longer believes
786 * `op` points to a valid object.
787 *
788 * There are cases where it's safe to use the naive code, but they're brittle.
789 * For example, if `op` points to a Python integer, you know that destroying
790 * one of those can't cause problems -- but in part that relies on that
791 * Python integers aren't currently weakly referencable. Best practice is
792 * to use Py_CLEAR() even if you can't think of a reason for why you need to.
793 */
Jim Fulton8c5aeaa2004-07-14 19:07:35 +0000794#define Py_CLEAR(op) \
795 do { \
796 if (op) { \
Alexandre Vassalotti8d412f32008-07-13 20:42:44 +0000797 PyObject *_py_tmp = (PyObject *)(op); \
Jim Fulton8c5aeaa2004-07-14 19:07:35 +0000798 (op) = NULL; \
Alexandre Vassalotti8d412f32008-07-13 20:42:44 +0000799 Py_DECREF(_py_tmp); \
Jim Fulton8c5aeaa2004-07-14 19:07:35 +0000800 } \
801 } while (0)
802
Guido van Rossum3f5da241990-12-20 15:06:42 +0000803/* Macros to use in case the object pointer may be NULL: */
Matthias Klose91a3b9e2009-04-05 21:19:13 +0000804#define Py_XINCREF(op) do { if ((op) == NULL) ; else Py_INCREF(op); } while (0)
805#define Py_XDECREF(op) do { if ((op) == NULL) ; else Py_DECREF(op); } while (0)
Guido van Rossum85a5fbb1990-10-14 12:07:46 +0000806
Guido van Rossum85a5fbb1990-10-14 12:07:46 +0000807/*
Thomas Heller1328b522004-04-22 17:23:49 +0000808These are provided as conveniences to Python runtime embedders, so that
809they can have object code that is not dependent on Python compilation flags.
810*/
811PyAPI_FUNC(void) Py_IncRef(PyObject *);
812PyAPI_FUNC(void) Py_DecRef(PyObject *);
813
814/*
Guido van Rossumcaa63801995-01-12 11:45:45 +0000815_Py_NoneStruct is an object of undefined type which can be used in contexts
Guido van Rossum85a5fbb1990-10-14 12:07:46 +0000816where NULL (nil) is not suitable (since NULL often means 'error').
817
Guido van Rossumcaa63801995-01-12 11:45:45 +0000818Don't forget to apply Py_INCREF() when returning this value!!!
Guido van Rossum85a5fbb1990-10-14 12:07:46 +0000819*/
Mark Hammonda2905272002-07-29 13:42:14 +0000820PyAPI_DATA(PyObject) _Py_NoneStruct; /* Don't use this directly */
Guido van Rossumcaa63801995-01-12 11:45:45 +0000821#define Py_None (&_Py_NoneStruct)
Guido van Rossum85a5fbb1990-10-14 12:07:46 +0000822
Brett Cannond05235e2003-10-19 21:19:40 +0000823/* Macro for returning Py_None from a function */
Tim Peters5980ff22004-07-22 01:46:43 +0000824#define Py_RETURN_NONE return Py_INCREF(Py_None), Py_None
Brett Cannond05235e2003-10-19 21:19:40 +0000825
Neil Schemenauera7ed6942001-01-04 01:31:50 +0000826/*
827Py_NotImplemented is a singleton used to signal that an operation is
828not implemented for a given type combination.
829*/
Mark Hammonda2905272002-07-29 13:42:14 +0000830PyAPI_DATA(PyObject) _Py_NotImplementedStruct; /* Don't use this directly */
Neil Schemenauera7ed6942001-01-04 01:31:50 +0000831#define Py_NotImplemented (&_Py_NotImplementedStruct)
Guido van Rossum85a5fbb1990-10-14 12:07:46 +0000832
Guido van Rossum5f284ce2001-01-17 15:20:39 +0000833/* Rich comparison opcodes */
834#define Py_LT 0
835#define Py_LE 1
836#define Py_EQ 2
837#define Py_NE 3
838#define Py_GT 4
839#define Py_GE 5
840
Tim Petersf4aca752004-09-23 02:39:37 +0000841/* Maps Py_LT to Py_GT, ..., Py_GE to Py_LE.
842 * Defined in object.c.
843 */
844PyAPI_DATA(int) _Py_SwappedOp[];
845
Guido van Rossum85a5fbb1990-10-14 12:07:46 +0000846/*
Jeremy Hylton938ace62002-07-17 16:30:39 +0000847Define staticforward and statichere for source compatibility with old
848C extensions.
849
850The staticforward define was needed to support certain broken C
851compilers (notably SCO ODT 3.0, perhaps early AIX as well) botched the
852static keyword when it was used with a forward declaration of a static
853initialized structure. Standard C allows the forward declaration with
854static, and we've decided to stop catering to broken C compilers.
855(In fact, we expect that the compilers are all fixed eight years later.)
Guido van Rossumb6775db1994-08-01 11:34:53 +0000856*/
857
Guido van Rossumb6775db1994-08-01 11:34:53 +0000858#define staticforward static
Guido van Rossum57836fe1995-02-21 21:06:10 +0000859#define statichere static
Guido van Rossumb6775db1994-08-01 11:34:53 +0000860
861
862/*
Guido van Rossum85a5fbb1990-10-14 12:07:46 +0000863More conventions
864================
865
866Argument Checking
867-----------------
868
869Functions that take objects as arguments normally don't check for nil
870arguments, but they do check the type of the argument, and return an
871error if the function doesn't apply to the type.
872
873Failure Modes
874-------------
875
876Functions may fail for a variety of reasons, including running out of
Guido van Rossum3f5da241990-12-20 15:06:42 +0000877memory. This is communicated to the caller in two ways: an error string
878is set (see errors.h), and the function result differs: functions that
879normally return a pointer return NULL for failure, functions returning
880an integer return -1 (which could be a legal return value too!), and
881other functions return 0 for success and -1 for failure.
Tim Peters4be93d02002-07-07 19:59:50 +0000882Callers should always check for errors before using the result. If
883an error was set, the caller must either explicitly clear it, or pass
884the error on to its caller.
Guido van Rossum85a5fbb1990-10-14 12:07:46 +0000885
886Reference Counts
887----------------
888
889It takes a while to get used to the proper usage of reference counts.
890
891Functions that create an object set the reference count to 1; such new
Guido van Rossumcaa63801995-01-12 11:45:45 +0000892objects must be stored somewhere or destroyed again with Py_DECREF().
Alex Martelli721b7762003-11-09 16:38:39 +0000893Some functions that 'store' objects, such as PyTuple_SetItem() and
894PyList_SetItem(),
Guido van Rossum85a5fbb1990-10-14 12:07:46 +0000895don't increment the reference count of the object, since the most
896frequent use is to store a fresh object. Functions that 'retrieve'
Alex Martelli721b7762003-11-09 16:38:39 +0000897objects, such as PyTuple_GetItem() and PyDict_GetItemString(), also
Guido van Rossumcaa63801995-01-12 11:45:45 +0000898don't increment
Guido van Rossum85a5fbb1990-10-14 12:07:46 +0000899the reference count, since most frequently the object is only looked at
900quickly. Thus, to retrieve an object and store it again, the caller
Guido van Rossumcaa63801995-01-12 11:45:45 +0000901must call Py_INCREF() explicitly.
Guido van Rossum85a5fbb1990-10-14 12:07:46 +0000902
Alex Martelli721b7762003-11-09 16:38:39 +0000903NOTE: functions that 'consume' a reference count, like
904PyList_SetItem(), consume the reference even if the object wasn't
905successfully stored, to simplify error handling.
Guido van Rossum85a5fbb1990-10-14 12:07:46 +0000906
907It seems attractive to make other functions that take an object as
Alex Martelli721b7762003-11-09 16:38:39 +0000908argument consume a reference count; however, this may quickly get
Guido van Rossum85a5fbb1990-10-14 12:07:46 +0000909confusing (even the current practice is already confusing). Consider
Guido van Rossumcaa63801995-01-12 11:45:45 +0000910it carefully, it may save lots of calls to Py_INCREF() and Py_DECREF() at
Guido van Rossum85a5fbb1990-10-14 12:07:46 +0000911times.
Guido van Rossum85a5fbb1990-10-14 12:07:46 +0000912*/
Guido van Rossuma3309961993-07-28 09:05:47 +0000913
Guido van Rossumd724b232000-03-13 16:01:29 +0000914
Tim Peters803526b2002-07-07 05:13:56 +0000915/* Trashcan mechanism, thanks to Christian Tismer.
Guido van Rossumd724b232000-03-13 16:01:29 +0000916
Tim Peters803526b2002-07-07 05:13:56 +0000917When deallocating a container object, it's possible to trigger an unbounded
918chain of deallocations, as each Py_DECREF in turn drops the refcount on "the
919next" object in the chain to 0. This can easily lead to stack faults, and
920especially in threads (which typically have less stack space to work with).
Guido van Rossumd724b232000-03-13 16:01:29 +0000921
Tim Peters803526b2002-07-07 05:13:56 +0000922A container object that participates in cyclic gc can avoid this by
923bracketing the body of its tp_dealloc function with a pair of macros:
Guido van Rossume92e6102000-04-24 15:40:53 +0000924
Tim Peters803526b2002-07-07 05:13:56 +0000925static void
926mytype_dealloc(mytype *p)
927{
928 ... declarations go here ...
929
930 PyObject_GC_UnTrack(p); // must untrack first
931 Py_TRASHCAN_SAFE_BEGIN(p)
932 ... The body of the deallocator goes here, including all calls ...
933 ... to Py_DECREF on contained objects. ...
934 Py_TRASHCAN_SAFE_END(p)
935}
936
Tim Peters808eb592002-08-07 20:53:05 +0000937CAUTION: Never return from the middle of the body! If the body needs to
938"get out early", put a label immediately before the Py_TRASHCAN_SAFE_END
939call, and goto it. Else the call-depth counter (see below) will stay
940above 0 forever, and the trashcan will never get emptied.
941
Tim Peters803526b2002-07-07 05:13:56 +0000942How it works: The BEGIN macro increments a call-depth counter. So long
943as this counter is small, the body of the deallocator is run directly without
944further ado. But if the counter gets large, it instead adds p to a list of
945objects to be deallocated later, skips the body of the deallocator, and
946resumes execution after the END macro. The tp_dealloc routine then returns
947without deallocating anything (and so unbounded call-stack depth is avoided).
948
949When the call stack finishes unwinding again, code generated by the END macro
950notices this, and calls another routine to deallocate all the objects that
951may have been added to the list of deferred deallocations. In effect, a
952chain of N deallocations is broken into N / PyTrash_UNWIND_LEVEL pieces,
953with the call stack never exceeding a depth of PyTrash_UNWIND_LEVEL.
Guido van Rossumd724b232000-03-13 16:01:29 +0000954*/
955
Mark Hammonda2905272002-07-29 13:42:14 +0000956PyAPI_FUNC(void) _PyTrash_deposit_object(PyObject*);
957PyAPI_FUNC(void) _PyTrash_destroy_chain(void);
958PyAPI_DATA(int) _PyTrash_delete_nesting;
959PyAPI_DATA(PyObject *) _PyTrash_delete_later;
Tim Peters803526b2002-07-07 05:13:56 +0000960
Guido van Rossumd724b232000-03-13 16:01:29 +0000961#define PyTrash_UNWIND_LEVEL 50
962
963#define Py_TRASHCAN_SAFE_BEGIN(op) \
Tim Peters803526b2002-07-07 05:13:56 +0000964 if (_PyTrash_delete_nesting < PyTrash_UNWIND_LEVEL) { \
965 ++_PyTrash_delete_nesting;
966 /* The body of the deallocator is here. */
Guido van Rossumd724b232000-03-13 16:01:29 +0000967#define Py_TRASHCAN_SAFE_END(op) \
Guido van Rossumd724b232000-03-13 16:01:29 +0000968 --_PyTrash_delete_nesting; \
969 if (_PyTrash_delete_later && _PyTrash_delete_nesting <= 0) \
Guido van Rossume92e6102000-04-24 15:40:53 +0000970 _PyTrash_destroy_chain(); \
Guido van Rossumd724b232000-03-13 16:01:29 +0000971 } \
Tim Peters803526b2002-07-07 05:13:56 +0000972 else \
973 _PyTrash_deposit_object((PyObject*)op);
Guido van Rossume92e6102000-04-24 15:40:53 +0000974
Guido van Rossuma3309961993-07-28 09:05:47 +0000975#ifdef __cplusplus
976}
977#endif
978#endif /* !Py_OBJECT_H */