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Add support for arbitrary arrays #1128

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Extends my previous work on #778 and an additional PR will soon be provided to remove the Default bound restriction.

If rust-lang/rust#75644 is going to be accepted, then the auxiliary functions won't be necessary in the near future.

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kngwyu commented Aug 31, 2020

Thank you, but is there any strong reason we should have this nightly feature?
I think we can wait for stabilization.

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Agreed in that I was hoping the goal was to remove the nightly feature. Maybe instead of providing this in the pyo3 core, we can extend the new FromPyObject derive to be able to plug in custom converters similar to #[serde(deserialize_with = ...)], and then the array support could be provided in a separate crate?

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TBH I'd rather this to be kept behind a feature flag for longer, than get merged without the second that const-generics are stabilized (#1076 calling).

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Agreed whatever we do we should give time for MSRV support to propagate.

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c410-f3r commented Sep 1, 2020

I did include it within the nightly feature because... you know... it is currently only available in the nightly version of Rustc.

Constant generics is now behind its own opt-in flag and all Default and Copy bounds were removed

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kngwyu commented Sep 1, 2020

I did include it within the nightly feature because... you know... it is currently only available in the nightly version of Rustc.

What I meant as feature is what this PR does and not the feature flag itself. My intention was keeping the code base reasonably small.

Anyway, let's consider merging after the upstream PR is merged.

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kngwyu commented Sep 1, 2020

Ah, and I realized that now we don't have any tests for nightly feature.

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Ah, and I realized that now we don't have any tests for nightly feature.

As the nightly feature is just adding optimizations, there's not much testing to be added other than an extra CI job which runs with the flag enabled.

I'd prefer to move away from the pyo3 core crate having any CI which requires nightly, as it consumes contributor time (e.g. PRs spuriously failing because something changed in nightly). Hence my question above whether we can make this easy to integrate via a separate crate for now.

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I have been thinking further on this topic, and I wanted to propose that we do support this PR, behind a new feature. I think it's beneficial to the Rust ecosystem that we support this because it enables more users to experiment with const generics. This can help the feature to eventually stabilize and also benefits immediately our users on nightly Rust.

(Even serde has an unstable feature for things like this: https://github.com/serde-rs/serde/blob/e3d871ff7bf10dadf10bdc234a55692228358d0e/serde/Cargo.toml#L45)

I'd prefer to keep away from having a single nightly feature, because I want users to know what they're opting in to and because I want to name it clearly that it's not guaranteed to be supported forever.

So I propose to move forward on this PR with a new feature named unstable-const-generics.

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@davidhewitt Maybe wait for the 1.50 release?

rust-lang/rust#79135

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The time has come.
Are you guys still using the latest stable compiler on master? Maybe I should put back the cons-generics feature flag.

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We support all the way back to Rust 1.41, so this will need to go behind a const-generics feature flag, yes.

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An alternative to a user-facing feature flag is we could detect the compiler version in the build script, and then conditionally enable const generics based on that.

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c410-f3r commented Mar 25, 2021

We support all the way back to Rust 1.41, so this will need to go behind a const-generics feature flag, yes.

I miss the good ol' days when nightly was the only thing available for this project

An alternative to a user-facing feature flag is we could detect the compiler version in the build script, and then conditionally enable const generics based on that.

Sure, this is a good approach. I will update everything accordingly. Thanks!

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👍 you might be interested in anyhow's build.rs which enables backtrace support in this fashion. We might be able to follow a similar pattern here.

https://github.com/dtolnay/anyhow/blob/master/build.rs

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Clippy failure is not related to this PR

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Thanks very much for the continued refinements! This is looking great.

Afraid I have another round of comments; I think we're really close now, very excited to see this land! 😅

As well as the comments below, I have two additional points:

  • When I suggested moving code into conversions/array.rs, I meant all of the existing array_impls! macros and tests too. If it's all together in one place it's much easier for reviewers to audit what's tested and also maintain in the future once we don't need to support older rustc < 1.51.

  • This still needs a CHANGELOG entry. I propose the following:

    ### Added
    - Add conversion for `[T; N]` for all `N` on Rust 1.51 and up. [#1128](https://github.com/PyO3/pyo3/pull/1128)
    

    Happy for you to choose alternative wording if you think there's a better phrase out there.

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Thank you for your continuous works, happy to see this works actually! 🎉

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let initialized_part = core::ptr::slice_from_raw_parts_mut(self.dst, *self.initialized);
unsafe {
core::ptr::drop_in_place(initialized_part);
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Why do we need to drop the initialized slice?

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Guard drops the initialized part when the closure panics to prevent leaks

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Ah, OK, I'm sorry but I was only thinking of the situation where T is a number or so (then dropping the slice does not mean so much...).
How about using [MaybeUninit<T>; N] instead?
Then, for me, it is clearer that each element should be dropped.
Some examples (https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/mem/union.MaybeUninit.html#initializing-an-array-element-by-element and https://doc.rust-lang.org/src/core/mem/maybe_uninit.rs.html#1042) use this style.
Also, please consider moving ArrayGuard definition in the try_create_array, since it is not used in other places.

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This data structure was used by previous releases of the nightly compiler and is battle tested by many people around the globe. Please consider avoid changing its original formulation.

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@kngwyu note that eventually an API for this might be added to std: rust-lang/rust#75644

Personally I'm happy as long as we're sure the implementation we use is sound.

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Whew, this PR is turning out to be quite fiddly! Thank you for all the effort you've put into this.

I'm apologetic to say I've got another round of comments. In particular I have a concern that we might have some UB inside the try_create_array function.

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@c410-f3r thanks very much for all the work you've done getting this PR through to this point.

I'm doing some tidying up of pending items ahead of the 0.14 release so I'm shortly going to rebase this PR and push a commit to finish it off so that we can include it in the upcoming release. Hope that's ok.

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Hey @davidhewitt Thanks for finishing this PR!

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Thanks! I have some minor requests for tests

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