Opened 6 years ago
Closed 6 years ago
#18346 closed enhancement (fixed)
Easier handling of vertex labels in graph backends
Reported by: | ncohen | Owned by: | |
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Priority: | major | Milestone: | sage-6.7 |
Component: | graph theory | Keywords: | |
Cc: | borassi, dcoudert, darij, vdelecroix | Merged in: | |
Authors: | Nathann Cohen | Reviewers: | Vincent Delecroix |
Report Upstream: | N/A | Work issues: | |
Branch: | 6ffbb05 (Commits) | Commit: | 6ffbb05999f70fa2535f28aca08b203036664491 |
Dependencies: | #18317 | Stopgaps: |
Description (last modified by )
This ticket addresses the following problem:
In the
CGraph
backends, threecdef
functions are used all the time to deal with vertex labels, i.e.get_vertex
,vertex_label
,check_vertex
. They are always called with the same arguments, which are all attributes of the backend that calls it. They should be method, so that the arguments are not needlessly repeated.
What this branch does:
- The
CGraph
backends (i.e.SparseBackend
,DenseBackend
andStaticSparseGraph
) andGenericGraphBackend
are turned into cdef classes.
- The three functions
get_vertex
,vertex_label
,check_vertex
become methods ofCGraphBackend
- It adds a method
CGraphBackend.c_graph()
to get the two cdef attributes_cg
and_cg_rev
. Turns out that some code in Sage accesses directlyG._backend._cg
.
This should have been sufficient, but there were (unexpected) consequences:
- There is no automatic pickling for cdef classes (as instrospection does not
work), and the doctests do not pass if that does not work. Consequently, I
implemented a unique
__reduce__
function inGenericGraphBackend
which handles the pickling for all backends (sparse/dense/static/networkx). It also removes some duplicated code as a result.
This makes the code a bit clearer (and it is needed). Also, moving this pickling
function above is good for the future, for there will be many modifications in
the future to the data structures in Sage: I plan to merge CGraph
and
GenericBackend
into only one class (but that's for later).
Nathann
P.S.: The branch is built to be reviewed commit by commit. In particular, the renamed file appears as trivial when looking at the first commit, but as a lot of + and - when looking at the branch's diff
Change History (30)
comment:1 Changed 6 years ago by
- Branch set to public/18346
- Commit set to 25765bb3c4cb4c5f49e5078d7e6e3968c62310e1
- Component changed from PLEASE CHANGE to graph theory
- Status changed from new to needs_review
comment:2 Changed 6 years ago by
- Description modified (diff)
comment:3 follow-up: ↓ 5 Changed 6 years ago by
Hello,
- Would it be bad to access directly the
._cg
or._cg_rev
attributes? (ok it seems to be for python code)
- Is there a description somewhere of the attributes
vertex_ints
andvertex_labels
?
- In a cython file, there is no need to declare
cdef object x
orobject x
, just dox
.
Vincent
comment:4 Changed 6 years ago by
- Status changed from needs_review to needs_info
comment:5 in reply to: ↑ 3 ; follow-up: ↓ 6 Changed 6 years ago by
- Status changed from needs_info to needs_review
Hello,
- Would it be bad to access directly the
._cg
or._cg_rev
attributes? (ok it seems to be for python code)
I do not think that it is if you do not modify them. Some functions (like isomorphism test) use it directly. The guy who wrote the code that does that knew what he was doing, unfortunately he is the only one :-P
- Is there a description somewhere of the attributes
vertex_ints
andvertex_labels
?
Not that I know. I am not sure that I remember exactly what they do either. What I remember is that not all vertices have an associated label, so that you don't spend your time playing with a dictionary when your graph is defined over integers.
This being said, I plan to rewrite all this (and of course the new code will have a proper documentation). I spent several hours thinking of how this should all be done, and my hardest constraint was that the changes should be "reviewable". Which is not very easily achieved when you plan to merge two classes together :-P
The 'first step' was #18185, the second is this one (or #18317, but that's only doc). Then I will turn NetworkX backend into a CGraph, and deprecate a lot of things in there. And then... Merge the classes O_O;;
- In a cython file, there is no need to declare
cdef object x
orobject x
, just dox
.
Okay. Well, I don't think I did anything like that but I may have met such a line somewhere. Really, this does not matter for the moment: this code will be heavily rewritten.
Nathann
comment:6 in reply to: ↑ 5 ; follow-up: ↓ 8 Changed 6 years ago by
Hello,
Replying to ncohen:
- Is there a description somewhere of the attributes
vertex_ints
andvertex_labels
?Not that I know. I am not sure that I remember exactly what they do either. What I remember is that not all vertices have an associated label, so that you don't spend your time playing with a dictionary when your graph is defined over integers.
Actually you do since get_vertex
or vertex_label
are intensively used everywhere. And those methods do check if their argument belongs to some dictionary as a first step! But if I understand well, the aim of the ticket is precisely not to upgrade these two methods but just to move them.
- In a cython file, there is no need to declare
cdef object x
orobject x
, just dox
.Okay. Well, I don't think I did anything like that but I may have met such a line somewhere. Really, this does not matter for the moment: this code will be heavily rewritten.
Hum
+ cdef int get_vertex(self, object u) except ? -2
+ cdef object vertex_label(self, int u_int)
this would better be
cdef int get_vertex(self, u) except ? -2 cdef vertex_label(self, int u_int)
Vincent
comment:7 Changed 6 years ago by
- Commit changed from 25765bb3c4cb4c5f49e5078d7e6e3968c62310e1 to c626eec1f23ab4f1529efe1efa3f738b30589b74
Branch pushed to git repo; I updated commit sha1. New commits:
c626eec | trac #18346: Without useless 'objects'
|
comment:8 in reply to: ↑ 6 ; follow-up: ↓ 9 Changed 6 years ago by
Yo !
Actually you do since
get_vertex
orvertex_label
are intensively used everywhere. And those methods do check if their argument belongs to some dictionary as a first step!
Oh really? But perhaps the dictionary does *not* contain the integers then? Anyway, does not matter much.
But if I understand well, the aim of the ticket is precisely not to upgrade these two methods but just to move them.
The aim of this ticket is to merge CGraph and Backend together. All that "backend" does is forward everything to CGraph. But I certainly cannot do all of this at once, it would be impossible to review. Plus because of the problems I met when writing this branch, I know that I should be wary of the isomorphism test code which works at a lower level than I expected.
Hum
+ cdef int get_vertex(self, object u) except ? -2 + cdef object vertex_label(self, int u_int)
Fixed. Actually, those are the lines that I moved from functions to methods. You will find (almost) the same lines with a '-' in front of them, a couple of lines above.
Nathann
comment:9 in reply to: ↑ 8 ; follow-up: ↓ 10 Changed 6 years ago by
Replying to ncohen:
The aim of this ticket is to merge CGraph and Backend together. All that "backend" does is forward everything to CGraph. But I certainly cannot do all of this at once, it would be impossible to review. Plus because of the problems I met when writing this branch, I know that I should be wary of the isomorphism test code which works at a lower level than I expected.
Will you keep these get_vertex
and vertex_label
forever? If you do so I will had a commit to optimize them. They are basically used everywhere.
Vincent
comment:10 in reply to: ↑ 9 Changed 6 years ago by
Will you keep these
get_vertex
andvertex_label
forever? If you do so I will had a commit to optimize them. They are basically used everywhere.
I have no idea for the moment. If there is something you want to change, it really cannot hurt.
Nathann
comment:11 Changed 6 years ago by
- Commit changed from c626eec1f23ab4f1529efe1efa3f738b30589b74 to d921cd9b951e14dcf7085788a254b213d3c40dfd
Branch pushed to git repo; I updated commit sha1. New commits:
d921cd9 | Trac 18346: tiny cleanup and optimization
|
comment:12 Changed 6 years ago by
I win some very precious nano seconds and add a tiny bit of documentation for vertex_labels
and vertex_ints
. I will start reviewing your other commits.
Vincent
comment:13 Changed 6 years ago by
Heuuuuuuu... Sorry Vincent but I am not really sure that what this code needs is 10 more lines to convert integer types from one to another....
And if you remove some 'object', please remove them from the .pxd
file too.
comment:14 follow-ups: ↓ 15 ↓ 27 Changed 6 years ago by
If this kind of cast from !Python/!Sage is really costly, perhaps we should have a cdef function that does it somewhere? Do I make a mistake if I say that you wrote this code in order to avoid having to raise an exception in many cases ?
Nathann
comment:15 in reply to: ↑ 14 ; follow-up: ↓ 16 Changed 6 years ago by
Replying to ncohen:
If this kind of cast from !Python/!Sage integer is really costly, perhaps we should have a cdef function that does it somewhere?
That's a possibility, but it is not clear what should be the signature of the function. What if it fails?
Do I make a mistake if I say that you wrote this code in order to avoid having to raise an exception in many cases?
It is not only that: calling directyl mpz_get_si
or PyInt_AS_LONG
is faster than the cast which does call PyInt_AsLong
. But that's true that I do not like this try/except
.
comment:16 in reply to: ↑ 15 Changed 6 years ago by
Yo !
That's a possibility, but it is not clear what should be the signature of the function. What if it fails?
LONG_MAX
?
It is not only that: calling directyl
mpz_get_si
orPyInt_AS_LONG
is faster than the cast which does callPyInt_AsLong
. But that's true that I do not like thistry/except
.
Well, if you can turn it into an independent function in some other module (something integer-related) then no problem. This code is much more in need of clarity than nanoseconds at the moment :-P
Nathann
comment:17 Changed 6 years ago by
- Commit changed from d921cd9b951e14dcf7085788a254b213d3c40dfd to 6318944f3f03fc813e11b43d5f4b440389b87e07
comment:18 follow-up: ↓ 19 Changed 6 years ago by
Hello,
Do whatever you want with efd07b7
. The rest of the cleanup is isolated in 6318944
.
Vincent
comment:19 in reply to: ↑ 18 ; follow-up: ↓ 20 Changed 6 years ago by
Do whatever you want with
efd07b7
. The rest of the cleanup is isolated in6318944
.
If you do not plan to turn the integer tests into a an independent function, then can you discard it?
comment:20 in reply to: ↑ 19 Changed 6 years ago by
Replying to ncohen:
Do whatever you want with
efd07b7
. The rest of the cleanup is isolated in6318944
.If you do not plan to turn the integer tests into a an independent function, then can you discard it?
yes
comment:21 Changed 6 years ago by
- Commit changed from 6318944f3f03fc813e11b43d5f4b440389b87e07 to e8df618e3a7fa04547c1cc1f4195eb837f679bdf
Branch pushed to git repo; I updated commit sha1. This was a forced push. New commits:
e8df618 | Trac 18346: some cleanup
|
comment:22 follow-up: ↓ 23 Changed 6 years ago by
- Reviewers set to Vincent Delecroix
I am done with reviewing your commits and they are fine.
So if e8df618
is fine for you, then it can go.
comment:23 in reply to: ↑ 22 Changed 6 years ago by
Yoooooooooo !
I am done with reviewing your commits and they are fine.
So if
e8df618
is fine for you, then it can go.
Oh. Great, thanks !! I was reviewing that commit. I should be done in 10 minutes.
Nathann
comment:24 Changed 6 years ago by
If you feel like messing with a new subfolder of src/, I cleaned a couple of things from finance/ in #18355 ;-)
comment:25 Changed 6 years ago by
- Status changed from needs_review to positive_review
Okayokay, it's all good. Thank you very much for your help with these painful patches ^^;
Nathann
comment:26 Changed 6 years ago by
- Status changed from positive_review to needs_work
sage -t --long src/sage/graphs/base/overview.py ********************************************************************** File "src/sage/graphs/base/overview.py", line 50, in sage.graphs.base.overview Failed example: Graph()._backend Expected: <class 'sage.graphs.base.sparse_graph.SparseGraphBackend'> Got: <type 'sage.graphs.base.sparse_graph.SparseGraphBackend'> ********************************************************************** 1 item had failures: 1 of 2 in sage.graphs.base.overview [1 test, 1 failure, 0.01 s]
comment:27 in reply to: ↑ 14 Changed 6 years ago by
Replying to ncohen:
If this kind of cast from !Python/!Sage integer is really costly, perhaps we should have a cdef function that does it somewhere? Do I make a mistake if I say that you wrote this code in order to avoid having to raise an exception in many cases ?
The proper solution to "convert" a Python object u
into a long is
cdef long u_long = PyNumber_Index(u)
see
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/sage-support/0ATjCgQlq4c
Vincent
comment:28 Changed 6 years ago by
- Commit changed from e8df618e3a7fa04547c1cc1f4195eb837f679bdf to 6ffbb05999f70fa2535f28aca08b203036664491
Branch pushed to git repo; I updated commit sha1. New commits:
8d61e56 | trac #18317: General documentation about graph data structures
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b7d9036 | trac #18317: Reviewer's comments
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2c02e23 | trac #18317: Merged with 6.7.beta3
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c6678ce | trac #18317: Review
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4378790 | trac #18317: Delete(s)
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2caff2f | trac #18346: Merge with #18317
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6ffbb05 | trac #18346; Broken doctest
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comment:29 Changed 6 years ago by
- Dependencies set to #18317
- Status changed from needs_work to positive_review
comment:30 Changed 6 years ago by
- Branch changed from public/18346 to 6ffbb05999f70fa2535f28aca08b203036664491
- Resolution set to fixed
- Status changed from positive_review to closed
New commits:
trac #18346: Make graph_backends.py into a .pyx
trac #18346: Move and indent three functions (nothing else is changed)
trac #18346: Rename calls to [get_vertex, vertex_label, check_vertex] into self.method calls
trac #18346: Turn the backends into cdef classes
trac #18346: New pickling function for GraphBackend
trac #18346: Remove old __reduce__ functions and move useful doctests
trac #18346: Some python code accesses G._backend._cg directly
trac #18346: A 'cdef class' is a 'type', not a 'class'