Add PyDict mode
Similarly to StrictUnicode mode (see b28613c2) add new opt-in mode that requests to decode Python dicts as ogórek.Dict instead of builtin map. As explained in recent patch "Add custom Dict that mirrors Python dict behaviour" this is needed to fix decoding issues that can be there due to different behaviour of Python dict and builtin Go map: ---- 8< ---- Ogórek currently represents unpickled dict via map[any]any, which is logical, but also exhibits issues because builtin Go map behaviour is different from Python's dict behaviour. For example: - Python's dict allows tuples to be used in keys, while Go map does not (https://github.com/kisielk/og-rek/issues/50), - Python's dict allows both long and int to be used interchangeable as keys, while Go map does not handle *big.Int as key with the same semantic (https://github.com/kisielk/og-rek/issues/55) - Python's dict allows to use numbers interchangeable in keys - all int and float, but on Go side int(1) and float64(1.0) are considered by builtin map as different keys. - In Python world bytestring (str from py2) is considered to be related to both unicode (str on py3) and bytes, but builtin map considers all string, Bytes and ByteString as different keys. - etc... All in all there are many differences in behaviour in builtin Python dict and Go map that result in generally different semantics when decoding pickled data. Those differences can be fixed only if we add custom dict implementation that mirrors what Python does. -> Do that: add custom Dict that implements key -> value mapping with mirroring Python behaviour. For now we are only adding the Dict class itself and its tests. Later we will use this new Dict to handle decoding dictionaries from the pickles. ---- 8< ---- In this patch we add new Decoder option to activate PyDict mode decoding, teach encoder to also support encoding of Dict and adjust tests. The behaviour of new system is explained by the following doc.go excerpt: For dicts there are two modes. In the first, default, mode Python dicts are decoded into standard Go map. This mode tries to use builtin Go type, but cannot mirror py behaviour fully because e.g. int(1), big.Int(1) and float64(1.0) are all treated as different keys by Go, while Python treats them as being equal. It also does not support decoding dicts with tuple used in keys: dict↔ map[any]any PyDict=n mode, default ← ogórek.Dict With PyDict=y mode, however, Python dicts are decoded as ogórek.Dict which mirrors behaviour of Python dict with respect to keys equality, and with respect to which types are allowed to be used as keys. dict↔ ogórek.Dict PyDict=y mode ← map[any]any
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