Add basic implementation of slice object.

So far, only start and stop integer indexes are supported. Step is
not supported, as well as objects of arbitrary types.

1 files changed, 59 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/py/objslice.c b/py/objslice.c
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+#include <stdlib.h>
+#include <stdint.h>
+#include <string.h>
+#include <assert.h>
+
+#include "nlr.h"
+#include "misc.h"
+#include "mpconfig.h"
+#include "obj.h"
+#include "runtime0.h"
+
+#if MICROPY_ENABLE_SLICE
+
+// TODO: This implements only variant of slice with 2 integer args only.
+// CPython supports 3rd arg (step), plus args can be arbitrary Python objects.
+typedef struct _mp_obj_slice_t {
+    mp_obj_base_t base;
+    machine_int_t start;
+    machine_int_t stop;
+} mp_obj_slice_t;
+
+void slice_print(void (*print)(void *env, const char *fmt, ...), void *env, mp_obj_t o_in) {
+    mp_obj_slice_t *o = o_in;
+    print(env, "slice(" INT_FMT ", " INT_FMT ")", o->start, o->stop);
+}
+
+const mp_obj_type_t slice_type = {
+    { &mp_const_type },
+    "slice",
+    slice_print,
+    NULL, // call_n
+    NULL, // unary_op
+    NULL, // binary_op
+    NULL, // getiter
+    NULL, // iternext
+    { { NULL, NULL }, }, // method list
+};
+
+// TODO: Make sure to handle "empty" values, which are signified by None in CPython
+mp_obj_t mp_obj_new_slice(mp_obj_t ostart, mp_obj_t ostop, mp_obj_t ostep) {
+    assert(ostep == NULL);
+    machine_int_t start = mp_obj_get_int(ostart);
+    machine_int_t stop = mp_obj_get_int(ostop);
+    mp_obj_slice_t *o = m_new(mp_obj_slice_t, 1);
+    o->base.type = &slice_type;
+    o->start = start;
+    o->stop = stop;
+    return (mp_obj_t)o;
+}
+
+void mp_obj_slice_get(mp_obj_t self_in, machine_int_t *start, machine_int_t *stop, machine_int_t *step) {
+    assert(MP_OBJ_IS_TYPE(self_in, &slice_type));
+    mp_obj_slice_t *self = self_in;
+    *start = self->start;
+    *stop = self->stop;
+    *step = 1;
+}
+
+#endif