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Improve performance of startswith, endswith, count, *find, and *index methods for str, bytes and bytearray #117431
Description
Feature or enhancement
Proposal:
We can improve performance of str.startswith and other methods for the single-argument case by creating a fast path in the single argument parsing.
Has this already been discussed elsewhere?
This is a minor feature, which does not need previous discussion elsewhere
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Linked PRs
- gh-117431: Improve performance of startswith, endswith, count and find methods for strings and bytes #117432
- gh-117431: Adapt str.{start,end}swith to use the METH_FASTCALL calling convention #117466
- gh-117431: Adapt str.find and friends to use the METH_FASTCALL calling convention #117468
- gh-117431: Optimize str.startswith #117480
- gh-117431: Adapt bytes and bytearray .startswith() and .endswith() to Argument Clinic #117495
- gh-117431: Fix str.endswith docstring #117499
- gh-117431: Adapt bytes and bytearray .find() and friends to Argument Clinic #117502
- gh-117431: Amend str method signatures after PR #117468 #117590
- gh-117431: Argument Clinic: copy forced text signature when cloning #117591
- gh-117431: Improve performance of startswith and endswith #117782
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eendebakpt commented on Apr 2, 2024
gh-117431: Adapt str.startswith and str.endswith to Argument Clinic (#…
erlend-aasland commented on Apr 3, 2024
Conversion of bytes/bytearray find() and friends1 is not straight-forward: the first argument can be either a buffer or an index in the range [0,255]. The code is shared between bytes and bytearray2. My first thought would be to create a custom Argument Clinic converter3, but we'd want that also to be shared between bytes and bytearray.
Footnotes
rfind, index, rindex, count ↩
Objects/bytes_methods.c ↩
a combination of one Argument Clinic Python input block and one C function ↩
pythongh-117431: Fix str.endswith docstring
gh-117431: Fix str.endswith docstring (#117499)
gh-117431: Adapt bytes and bytearray .startswith() and .endswith() to…
gh-117431: Adapt str.find and friends to Argument Clinic (#117468)
hugovk commented on Apr 3, 2024
Nice work so far! Would be good to put these in What's New, perhaps under https://docs.python.org/3.13/whatsnew/3.13.html#optimizations.
Can be done later, when closing the issue.
pythongh-117431: Amend str method signatures after PR python#117468
gh-117431: Argument Clinic: copy forced text signature when cloning (#…
gh-117431: Adapt bytes and bytearray .find() and friends to Argument …
pythongh-117431: Adapt str.startswith and str.endswith to Argument Cl…
pythongh-117431: Fix str.endswith docstring (python#117499)
pythongh-117431: Adapt bytes and bytearray .startswith() and .endswit…
pythongh-117431: Adapt str.find and friends to Argument Clinic (pytho…
pythongh-117431: Argument Clinic: copy forced text signature when clo…
pythongh-117431: Adapt bytes and bytearray .find() and friends to Arg…