str: resolve subscripts and slices through the code point index - #8526
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughAdds a compact WTF-8 index and lazy ChangesUnicode character indexing and slicing
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to String indexing and slicing can mishandle out-of-range positions, and the new index structure's fixed-size assertion can break supported 32-bit builds. Merge should wait for these localized correctness and portability issues to be fixed, along with the normal formatting and lint checks. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant PythonStringOperation
participant PyStr
participant StrData
participant Wtf8Index
PythonStringOperation->>PyStr: request Unicode character access
PyStr->>StrData: convert character index or range
StrData->>Wtf8Index: resolve non-ASCII byte offset
Wtf8Index-->>StrData: return byte offset
StrData-->>PyStr: return byte range
PyStr-->>PythonStringOperation: return character or slice
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crates/vm/src/stdlib/_sre.rs (1)
73-109: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low valueCorrect the complexity comment.
Lines 76-83 and Lines 107-109 imply that cursor creation is always O(1).
PyStr::char_index_to_bytebuildsWtf8Indexon the first applicable lookup, so that lookup is O(n). State that the O(1) cost applies after index initialization.Proposed comment correction
- /// already caches its character length and can resolve a character index to - /// a byte offset in constant time, so this drive asks the string instead of - /// re-deriving: the table it builds on the first lookup is shared by every + /// already caches its character length. The first lookup that needs an + /// index builds it, and later lookups resolve a character index to a byte + /// offset in constant time. The table is shared by every @@ - // Rebuilding is O(1), so it is never the slower branch and the + // Once the index is built, rebuilding is O(1), so it is never the slower branch and the🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@crates/common/src/str.rs`:
- Around line 446-477: In crates/common/src/str.rs lines 446-477, update
char_range_to_bytes to clamp range.start and range.end to char_len() once at the
top, use those clamped values for the ASCII return and from_end calculation, and
preserve start <= end. In crates/common/src/str.rs lines 427-444, update
char_index_to_byte to return self.data.len() when index >= self.char_len()
before calculating from_end.
In `@crates/common/src/wtf8_index.rs`:
- Around line 222-228: Update the test byte-size calculation in
byte_size_is_one_group_per_64_code_points to derive the per-group footprint from
size_of::<Group>() instead of asserting a hard-coded 24-byte size. Remove the
target-specific size assertion and document the footprint using the computed
Group size so the test passes on 32-bit and 64-bit targets.
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In `@crates/vm/src/stdlib/_sre.rs`:
- Around line 73-109: Correct the complexity documentation around
Utf8Str::create_cursor and adjust_cursor to state that char_index_to_byte may
perform an O(n) Wtf8Index initialization on its first applicable lookup, while
subsequent lookups are O(1). Keep the existing explanation of shared index reuse
and O(1) cursor rebuilding accurate.
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| /// The byte range spanned by the code points in `range`. | ||
| /// | ||
| /// A range that reaches within [`MAX_WALK_TO_INDEX`] of *both* ends is | ||
| /// walked to for the same reason a single index near one end is -- a slice | ||
| /// like `s[1:-1]` should not build a table over the whole string. | ||
| #[must_use] | ||
| pub fn char_range_to_bytes(&self, range: core::ops::Range<usize>) -> core::ops::Range<usize> { | ||
| if self.kind.is_ascii() { | ||
| return range; | ||
| } | ||
| let from_end = self.char_len() - range.end; | ||
| if range.start <= MAX_WALK_TO_INDEX && from_end <= MAX_WALK_TO_INDEX { | ||
| // Two walks over disjoint ends, each of at most MAX_WALK_TO_INDEX | ||
| // steps -- one iterator driven from both sides would have them meet | ||
| // on a short string. | ||
| let start = self | ||
| .data | ||
| .code_point_indices() | ||
| .nth(range.start) | ||
| .map_or(self.data.len(), |(byte, _)| byte); | ||
| let end = match from_end { | ||
| 0 => self.data.len(), | ||
| n => self | ||
| .data | ||
| .code_point_indices() | ||
| .nth_back(n - 1) | ||
| .map_or(self.data.len(), |(byte, _)| byte), | ||
| }; | ||
| return start..end; | ||
| } | ||
| self.char_index_to_byte(range.start)..self.char_index_to_byte(range.end) | ||
| } |
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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Apply one clamping convention to the new character-index lookups. Both new helpers subtract a caller-supplied code point index from char_len() without clamping, so an out-of-range index panics in a debug build and wraps in a release build. char_index_to_byte already clamps and documents that an index at or past the end answers the byte length.
crates/common/src/str.rs#L446-L477: clamprange.startandrange.endtochar_len()once at the top, use the clamped values in the ASCII return and infrom_end, and keepstart <= end.crates/common/src/str.rs#L427-L444: returnself.data.len()whenindex >= self.char_len()before computingfrom_end.
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In `@crates/common/src/str.rs` around lines 446 - 477, In crates/common/src/str.rs
lines 446-477, update char_range_to_bytes to clamp range.start and range.end to
char_len() once at the top, use those clamped values for the ASCII return and
from_end calculation, and preserve start <= end. In crates/common/src/str.rs
lines 427-444, update char_index_to_byte to return self.data.len() when index >=
self.char_len() before calculating from_end.
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| #[test] | ||
| fn byte_size_is_one_group_per_64_code_points() { | ||
| let s = wtf8(&"\u{10000}".repeat(200)); | ||
| let index = Wtf8Index::new(s.as_ref(), 200); | ||
| assert_eq!(index.byte_size(), (200 / 64 + 1) * size_of::<Group>()); | ||
| assert_eq!(size_of::<Group>(), 24); | ||
| } |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
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Make the Group size assertion and documentation target-independent.
Group is 24 bytes on 64-bit targets but 20 bytes on 32-bit targets, including the CI's i686 and wasm32 builds. Replace the hard-coded assertion and document the footprint as size_of::<Group>(); derive the per-code-point value from that size.
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In `@crates/common/src/wtf8_index.rs` around lines 222 - 228, Update the test
byte-size calculation in byte_size_is_one_group_per_64_code_points to derive the
per-group footprint from size_of::<Group>() instead of asserting a hard-coded
24-byte size. Remove the target-specific size assertion and document the
footprint using the computed Group size so the test passes on 32-bit and 64-bit
targets.
`nth_char` and the four `SliceableSequenceOp` methods each walked the buffer to reach a character index, so `s[i]` and `s[a:b]` on a non-ASCII string were O(i) and O(b), and a loop over either was quadratic. They now resolve through `char_index_to_byte`, which is what the index table was added for: a plain slice becomes a byte reslice, and a stepped slice one lookup per collected character. An index within four code points of an end is still walked to, and so is a slice that reaches within four of both. PyPy draws the same line with `MAX_UNROLL_NEXT_CODEPOINT_POS`, in a guard that also asks the JIT whether the index is a constant; there is no JIT here, but the reason to skip the build survives it -- `s[0]` on a long string should not pay for a table. The stepped slices took their character count from `(range.len() / step) + 1`, which overshoots whenever the last step lands short: `"aéc"[::3]` reported a length of 2 for a one-character string, and `reversed()` on it read past the end of the buffer and panicked. The count is now the index iterator's own length, so it cannot drift from the characters actually collected. Assisted-by: Claude
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s[i]ands[a:b]on a non-ASCII string each walked the buffer to reach a characterindex, so a loop over either was quadratic. #8522 added a code point index to
PyStrfor_sre; this puts the rest ofstr's random access on it, which is what PyPy does with thesame table.
What changes
StrData::nth_charand the fourSliceableSequenceOpmethods resolve throughchar_index_to_byteinstead of walking:_getitem_slice_slowpathdoes exactly this),An index within four code points of an end is still walked to, and so is a slice that
reaches within four of both ends. PyPy draws the same line with
MAX_UNROLL_NEXT_CODEPOINT_POS = 4, in a guard that also asks the JIT whether the index isa constant so the walk unrolls. There is no JIT here to ask, so that half of the guard has
no counterpart -- but the reason to skip the build survives it:
s[0]on a long stringshould not pay for a table over the whole buffer, and four steps are cheaper than building
one. Without the threshold,
s[0]would be the one case this change made slower.The two stepped methods now take their character count from the index iterator's own
len(), so it cannot drift from the characters actually collected. #8525 corrected thatcount against
mainby fixing the formula; deriving it from the iterator removes theformula instead.
Measurements
Best of 3, paired against the parent commit on the same machine. Each row doubles n, so
x4is quadratic andx2is linear. The subject is"가나다라" * (n / 4).s[i]for everyis[0],s[1],s[-1],s[-2]in a loops[i:i+4]sweepingis[-1]is in that second row because reaching the last character used to walk the wholestring; it is now one step back from the end.
s[1:-1]repeated stays quadratic (145 ms → 82 ms at n=8000) and should: it copies n-2characters per call, so the cost is the copy, not the lookup. That row is also the one that
exercises the walk-both-ends branch.
ASCII is untouched and measures that way. At n=200000, running both binaries alternately,
best of 9 over three rounds:
s[i]for everyis[i:i+4]sweeps[::2]s[::-1](At n=8000 the same rows looked up to 37% apart in either direction, which is what
sub-millisecond timings do on a shared machine -- hence the larger n.)
Correctness
stop and step from
{None, 0..6, -1..-6, ±100}over strings straddling the ASCII split,the WTF-8 surrogate range, the astral plane, the 64-code-point index-group boundary and
the four-step walk threshold -- matches CPython 3.14.6 exactly.
test_re test_str test_string test_bytes test_json test_codecs test_ucn: 1198 run, 68skipped, SUCCESS.
redifferential still shows no differences.Still walking
AnyStr::get_chars--find,count,startswithandendswithwith explicit bounds --still walks to its range, and carries a
// FIXME: get_chars is expensive for strsayingso. It takes the payload rather than the string object, so it cannot reach the table
without threading
PyStrthrough the trait; PyPy converts those bounds with the same_index_to_bytethis uses. Left for a separate change.🤖 Generated with Claude Code