diff Python/errors.c @ 48875:d6e86a96f9b3

Issue #2534: speed up isinstance() and issubclass() by 50-70%, so as to match Python 2.5 speed despite the __instancecheck__ / __subclasscheck__ mechanism. In the process, fix a bug where isinstance() and issubclass(), when given a tuple of classes as second argument, were looking up __instancecheck__ / __subclasscheck__ on the tuple rather than on each type object. Reviewed by Benjamin Peterson and Raymond Hettinger.
author Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net>
date Tue, 26 Aug 2008 22:40:48 +0000
parents 85b67fb5672b
children c562c8dae49a
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--- a/Python/errors.c	Tue Aug 26 22:02:58 2008 +0000
+++ b/Python/errors.c	Tue Aug 26 22:40:48 2008 +0000
@@ -160,11 +160,12 @@
 		int res = 0;
 		PyObject *exception, *value, *tb;
 		PyErr_Fetch(&exception, &value, &tb);
-		res = PyObject_IsSubclass(err, exc);
+		/* PyObject_IsSubclass() can recurse and therefore is
+		   not safe (see test_bad_getattr in test.pickletester). */
+		res = PyType_IsSubtype((PyTypeObject *)err, (PyTypeObject *)exc);
 		/* This function must not fail, so print the error here */
 		if (res == -1) {
 			PyErr_WriteUnraisable(err);
-			/* issubclass did not succeed */
 			res = 0;
 		}
 		PyErr_Restore(exception, value, tb);