Petr Viktorin f0a0467c17
gh-143054: Disallow non-top-level Cut for now (GH-143622)
The behaviour of Cut in nested parentheses, Repeat, Opt, and similar
is somewhat chaotic. Apparently even the academic papers on PEG aren't
as clear as they could be.

And it doesn't really matter. Python only uses top-level cuts.
When that changes, we can clarify as much as necessary (and even
change the implementation to make sense for what we'll need).

Document that this is deliberately unspecified, and add a test to
make sure any decision is deliberate, tested and documented.
2026-01-13 13:21:59 +01:00

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from typing import Any
from pegen import grammar
from pegen.grammar import Alt, GrammarVisitor, Rhs, Rule
class ValidationError(Exception):
pass
class GrammarValidator(GrammarVisitor):
def __init__(self, grammar: grammar.Grammar) -> None:
self.grammar = grammar
self.rulename: str | None = None
def validate_rule(self, rulename: str, node: Rule) -> None:
self.rulename = rulename
self.visit(node)
self.rulename = None
class SubRuleValidator(GrammarValidator):
def visit_Rhs(self, node: Rhs) -> None:
for index, alt in enumerate(node.alts):
alts_to_consider = node.alts[index + 1 :]
for other_alt in alts_to_consider:
self.check_intersection(alt, other_alt)
def check_intersection(self, first_alt: Alt, second_alt: Alt) -> None:
if str(second_alt).startswith(str(first_alt)):
raise ValidationError(
f"In {self.rulename} there is an alternative that will "
f"never be visited:\n{second_alt}"
)
class RaiseRuleValidator(GrammarValidator):
def visit_Alt(self, node: Alt) -> None:
if self.rulename and self.rulename.startswith('invalid'):
# raising is allowed in invalid rules
return
if node.action and 'RAISE_SYNTAX_ERROR' in node.action:
raise ValidationError(
f"In {self.rulename!r} there is an alternative that contains "
f"RAISE_SYNTAX_ERROR; this is only allowed in invalid_ rules"
)
class CutValidator(GrammarValidator):
"""Fail if Cut is not directly in a rule.
For simplicity, we currently document that a Cut affects alternatives
of the *rule* it is in.
However, the implementation makes cuts local to enclosing Rhs
(e.g. parenthesized list of choices).
Additionally, in academic papers about PEG, repeats and optional items
are "desugared" to choices with an empty alternative, and thus contain
a Cut's effect.
Please update documentation and tests when adding this cut,
then get rid of this validator.
See gh-143054.
"""
def visit(self, node: Any, parents: tuple[Any, ...] = ()) -> None:
super().visit(node, parents=(*parents, node))
def visit_Cut(self, node: Alt, parents: tuple[Any, ...] = ()) -> None:
parent_types = [type(p).__name__ for p in parents]
if parent_types != ['Rule', 'Rhs', 'Alt', 'NamedItem', 'Cut']:
raise ValidationError(
f"Rule {self.rulename!r} contains cut that's not on the "
"top level. "
"The intended semantics of such cases need "
"to be clarified; see the CutValidator docstring."
f"\nThe cut is inside: {parent_types}"
)
def validate_grammar(the_grammar: grammar.Grammar) -> None:
for validator_cls in GrammarValidator.__subclasses__():
validator = validator_cls(the_grammar)
for rule_name, rule in the_grammar.rules.items():
validator.validate_rule(rule_name, rule)