From: Ivan Levkivskyi <levkivskyi@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2017 21:46:39 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: bpo-26213: Document _UNPACK bytecodes and BUILD_MAP changes (#238)
X-Git-Tag: v3.7.0a1~1213
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=0705f66eb369aa6a6cdb699e24ff61e1ab2e0c56;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

bpo-26213: Document _UNPACK bytecodes and BUILD_MAP changes (#238)
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diff --git a/Doc/library/dis.rst b/Doc/library/dis.rst
index 694d5642fb0e..a15ecdcdb9a4 100644
--- a/Doc/library/dis.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/dis.rst
@@ -772,8 +772,13 @@ All of the following opcodes use their arguments.
 
 .. opcode:: BUILD_MAP (count)
 
-   Pushes a new dictionary object onto the stack.  The dictionary is pre-sized
-   to hold *count* entries.
+   Pushes a new dictionary object onto the stack.  Pops ``2 * count`` items
+   so that the dictionary holds *count* entries:
+   ``{..., TOS3: TOS2, TOS1: TOS}``.
+
+   .. versionchanged:: 3.5
+      The dictionary is created from stack items instead of creating an
+      empty dictionary pre-sized to hold *count* items.
 
 
 .. opcode:: BUILD_CONST_KEY_MAP (count)
@@ -793,6 +798,52 @@ All of the following opcodes use their arguments.
    .. versionadded:: 3.6
 
 
+.. opcode:: BUILD_TUPLE_UNPACK (count)
+
+   Pops *count* iterables from the stack, joins them in a single tuple,
+   and pushes the result.  Implements iterable unpacking in tuple
+   displays ``(*x, *y, *z)``.
+
+   .. versionadded:: 3.5
+
+
+.. opcode:: BUILD_LIST_UNPACK (count)
+
+   This is similar to :opcode:`BUILD_TUPLE_UNPACK`, but pushes a list
+   instead of tuple.  Implements iterable unpacking in list
+   displays ``[*x, *y, *z]``.
+
+   .. versionadded:: 3.5
+
+
+.. opcode:: BUILD_SET_UNPACK (count)
+
+   This is similar to :opcode:`BUILD_TUPLE_UNPACK`, but pushes a set
+   instead of tuple.  Implements iterable unpacking in set
+   displays ``{*x, *y, *z}``.
+
+   .. versionadded:: 3.5
+
+
+.. opcode:: BUILD_MAP_UNPACK (count)
+
+   Pops *count* mappings from the stack, merges them into a single dictionary,
+   and pushes the result.  Implements dictionary unpacking in dictionary
+   displays ``{**x, **y, **z}``.
+
+   .. versionadded:: 3.5
+
+
+.. opcode:: BUILD_MAP_UNPACK_WITH_CALL (oparg)
+
+   This is similar to :opcode:`BUILD_MAP_UNPACK`,
+   but is used for ``f(**x, **y, **z)`` call syntax.  The lowest byte of
+   *oparg* is the count of mappings, the relative position of the
+   corresponding callable ``f`` is encoded in the second byte of *oparg*.
+
+   .. versionadded:: 3.5
+
+
 .. opcode:: LOAD_ATTR (namei)
 
    Replaces TOS with ``getattr(TOS, co_names[namei])``.