ruff/crates/ruff_python_semantic
Charlie Marsh 17af12e57c
Add branch detection to the semantic model (#6694)
## Summary

We have a few rules that rely on detecting whether two statements are in
different branches -- for example, different arms of an `if`-`else`.
Historically, the way this was implemented is that, given two statement
IDs, we'd find the common parent (by traversing upwards via our
`Statements` abstraction); then identify branches "manually" by matching
the parents against `try`, `if`, and `match`, and returning iterators
over the arms; then check if there's an arm for which one of the
statements is a child, and the other is not.

This has a few drawbacks:

1. First, the code is generally a bit hard to follow (Konsti mentioned
this too when working on the `ElifElseClause` refactor).

2. Second, this is the only place in the codebase where we need to go
from `&Stmt` to `StatementID` -- _everywhere_ else, we only need to go
in the _other_ direction. Supporting these lookups means we need to
maintain a mapping from `&Stmt` to `StatementID` that includes every
`&Stmt` in the program. (We _also_ end up maintaining a `depth` level
for every statement.) I'd like to get rid of these requirements to
improve efficiency, reduce complexity, and enable us to treat AST modes
more generically in the future. (When I looked at adding the `&Expr` to
our existing statement-tracking infrastructure, maintaining a hash map
with all the statements noticeably hurt performance.)

The solution implemented here instead makes branches a first-class
concept in the semantic model. Like with `Statements`, we now have a
`Branches` abstraction, where each branch points to its optional parent.
When we store statements, we store the `BranchID` alongside each
statement. When we need to detect whether two statements are in the same
branch, we just realize each statement's branch path and compare the
two. (Assuming that the two statements are in the same scope, then
they're on the same branch IFF one branch path is a subset of the other,
starting from the top.) We then add some calls to the visitor to push
and pop branches in the appropriate places, for `if`, `try`, and `match`
statements.

Note that a branch is not 1:1 with a statement; instead, each branch is
closer to a suite, but not _every_ suite is a branch. For example, each
arm in an `if`-`elif`-`else` is a branch, but the `else` in a `for` loop
is not considered a branch.

In addition to being much simpler, this should also be more efficient,
since we've shed the entire `&Stmt` hash map, plus the `depth` that we
track on `StatementWithParent` in favor of a single `Option<BranchID>`
on `StatementWithParent` plus a single vector for all branches. The
lookups should be faster too, since instead of doing a bunch of jumps
around with the hash map + repeated recursive calls to find the common
parents, we instead just do a few simple lookups in the `Branches`
vector to realize and compare the branch paths.

## Test Plan

`cargo test` -- we have a lot of coverage for this, which we inherited
from PyFlakes
2023-08-19 21:28:17 +00:00
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src Add branch detection to the semantic model (#6694) 2023-08-19 21:28:17 +00:00
Cargo.toml Add support for unions to our Python builtins type system (#6541) 2023-08-13 18:00:50 -04:00