expose CELL status of a symbol in symtable

[iritkatriel]

Feature or enhancement

Proposal:

symtable symbols have the following predicates, but for some reason no is_cell. Is there a reason for this, or should we expose is_cell as well?

'is_annotated', 'is_assigned', 'is_declared_global', 'is_free', 'is_global', 'is_imported', 'is_local', 'is_namespace', 'is_nonlocal', 'is_parameter', 'is_referenced'

The symbol obviously knows whether it's a cell:

>>> st.get_children()[0].get_symbols()[0]._scope_str
<bound method Symbol._scope_str of <symbol 'x': CELL, USE|DEF_LOCAL>>

Has this already been discussed elsewhere?

No response given

Links to previous discussion of this feature:

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Linked PRs

• gh-143504: Expose CELL status of a symbol in symtable (GH-143504) #143549

[Yashp002]

I did look this up in the issue tracker, python-dev/python-ideas archives, and discuss.python.org for symtable is_cell and it doesn't seem have to been discussed elsewhere.

[picnixz]

@Yashp002 Core developers usually don't need to discuss some features. We appreciate your dedication to contribute but please let triagers or core devs decide whether an issue should be kept open or not. In this case, it's not even about exposing it but rather asking for something.

symtable symbols have the following predicates, but for some reason no is_cell. Is there a reason for this, or should we expose is_cell as well?

I'm pretty sure I asked this question myself when I worked on #120029 but I didn't follow up. I think we can add it for completeness as it's not really costly and that's the only way to know whether something is in a CELL scope or not (scope being private and scope_str being a string, hence unstable).

[Yashp002]

I can put together a PR to add is_cell to symtable then, since it sounds like a straightforward addition for completeness.
Also was not my intention to be prying into a core dev's authority, that's my bad.

[iritkatriel]

Thanks. Also maybe a get_cells to go with the existing get_frees.