[doc] bpo-45680: Disambiguate `getitem` and `__class_getitem__` in the data model. #29389

AlexWaygood · 2021-11-03T14:56:03Z

The documentation explaining Python's data model does not adequately explain
the differences between __getitem__ and __class_getitem__, nor does it
explain when each is called. There is an attempt at explaining
__class_getitem__ in the documentation for GenericAlias objects, but
this does not give sufficient clarity into how the method works. Moreover, it
is the wrong place for that information to be found; the explanation of
__class_getitem__ should be in the documentation explaining the data model.

This PR has been split off from #29335.

https://bugs.python.org/issue45680

…`` in the data model. The documentation explaining Python's data model does not adequately explain the differences between ``__getitem__`` and ``__class_getitem__``, nor does it explain when each is called. There is an attempt at explaining ``__class_getitem__`` in the documentation for ``GenericAlias`` objects, but this does not give sufficient clarity into how the method works. Moreover, it is the wrong place for that information to be found; the explanation of ``__class_getitem__`` should be in the documentation explaining the data model. This PR has been split off from python#29335.

Fidget-Spinner

Great job!

Doc/reference/datamodel.rst

AlexWaygood · 2021-11-04T11:47:51Z

Great job!

Thank you <3

ambv

This is pretty cool, thanks for being so thorough.

Doc/reference/datamodel.rst

AlexWaygood · 2021-11-07T22:21:06Z

This is pretty cool, thanks for being so thorough.

Massive thanks for the detailed review! I've rewritten large chunks in response 😅

(Wow, writing documentation is hard!)

AlexWaygood · 2021-11-07T22:37:35Z

Doc/reference/datamodel.rst

+
+Usually, the :ref:`subscription<subscriptions>` of an object using square
+brackets will call the :meth:`~object.__getitem__` instance method defined on
+the object's class. However, if the object being subscribed is itself a class,


Should it be "object being subscribed", or "object being subscripted"?

AlexWaygood · 2021-11-07T22:38:12Z

Doc/reference/datamodel.rst

+   def subscribe(obj, x):
+       class_of_obj = type(obj)
+
+       # If the class of `obj` defines `__getitem__()`,
+       # call `type(obj).__getitem__()`
+       if hasattr(class_of_obj, '__getitem__'):
+           return class_of_obj.__getitem__(obj, x)
+
+       # Else, if `obj` defines `__class_getitem__()`,
+       # call `obj.__class_getitem__()`
+       elif hasattr(obj, '__class_getitem__'):
+           return obj.__class_getitem__(x)
+
+       # Else, raise an exception
+       else:
+           raise TypeError(
+               f"'{class_of_obj.__name__}' object is not subscriptable"
+           )


Please correct me if this isn't quite right -- I'm in a little over my head here!

AlexWaygood · 2021-11-09T16:05:49Z

Okay, the CI failures are because rstlint.py reckons I've applied bad markup in lines 2292, 2297, 2315, 2323, 2337 and 2340. All of these are because rstlint sees things like "`obj`" and raises an error, because it reckons that it should either be something like "``obj``" or ":class:`obj`" -- it doesn't realise that I'm not actually trying to apply reStructuredText markup at all, as these are all inside comments inside code blocks.

miss-islington · 2021-11-18T15:54:42Z

Thanks @AlexWaygood for the PR, and @ambv for merging it 🌮🎉.. I'm working now to backport this PR to: 3.9.
🐍🍒⛏🤖

miss-islington · 2021-11-18T15:54:43Z

Thanks @AlexWaygood for the PR, and @ambv for merging it 🌮🎉.. I'm working now to backport this PR to: 3.10.
🐍🍒⛏🤖 I'm not a witch! I'm not a witch!

bedevere-bot · 2021-11-18T15:54:57Z

GH-29619 is a backport of this pull request to the 3.9 branch.

…`` in the data model (pythonGH-29389) The documentation explaining Python's data model does not adequately explain the differences between ``__getitem__`` and ``__class_getitem__``, nor does it explain when each is called. There is an attempt at explaining ``__class_getitem__`` in the documentation for ``GenericAlias`` objects, but this does not give sufficient clarity into how the method works. Moreover, it is the wrong place for that information to be found; the explanation of ``__class_getitem__`` should be in the documentation explaining the data model. This PR has been split off from pythonGH-29335. (cherry picked from commit 31b3a70) Co-authored-by: Alex Waygood <Alex.Waygood@Gmail.com>

bedevere-bot · 2021-11-18T15:55:03Z

GH-29620 is a backport of this pull request to the 3.10 branch.

…`` in the data model (pythonGH-29389) The documentation explaining Python's data model does not adequately explain the differences between ``__getitem__`` and ``__class_getitem__``, nor does it explain when each is called. There is an attempt at explaining ``__class_getitem__`` in the documentation for ``GenericAlias`` objects, but this does not give sufficient clarity into how the method works. Moreover, it is the wrong place for that information to be found; the explanation of ``__class_getitem__`` should be in the documentation explaining the data model. This PR has been split off from pythonGH-29335. (cherry picked from commit 31b3a70) Co-authored-by: Alex Waygood <Alex.Waygood@Gmail.com>

…titem__`` in the data model (GH-29389) (GH-29620) The documentation explaining Python's data model does not adequately explain the differences between ``__getitem__`` and ``__class_getitem__``, nor does it explain when each is called. There is an attempt at explaining ``__class_getitem__`` in the documentation for ``GenericAlias`` objects, but this does not give sufficient clarity into how the method works. Moreover, it is the wrong place for that information to be found; the explanation of ``__class_getitem__`` should be in the documentation explaining the data model. This PR has been split off from GH-29335. (cherry picked from commit 31b3a70) Co-authored-by: Alex Waygood <Alex.Waygood@Gmail.com> Co-authored-by: Łukasz Langa <lukasz@langa.pl>

…item__`` in the data model (GH-29389) (GH-29619) The documentation explaining Python's data model does not adequately explain the differences between ``__getitem__`` and ``__class_getitem__``, nor does it explain when each is called. There is an attempt at explaining ``__class_getitem__`` in the documentation for ``GenericAlias`` objects, but this does not give sufficient clarity into how the method works. Moreover, it is the wrong place for that information to be found; the explanation of ``__class_getitem__`` should be in the documentation explaining the data model. This PR has been split off from GH-29335. (cherry picked from commit 31b3a70) Co-authored-by: Alex Waygood <Alex.Waygood@Gmail.com> Co-authored-by: Łukasz Langa <lukasz@langa.pl>

…`` in the data model (pythonGH-29389) The documentation explaining Python's data model does not adequately explain the differences between ``__getitem__`` and ``__class_getitem__``, nor does it explain when each is called. There is an attempt at explaining ``__class_getitem__`` in the documentation for ``GenericAlias`` objects, but this does not give sufficient clarity into how the method works. Moreover, it is the wrong place for that information to be found; the explanation of ``__class_getitem__`` should be in the documentation explaining the data model. This PR has been split off from pythonGH-29335.

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