Source code for pytket.backends.resulthandle

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"""ResultHandle class
"""

from ast import literal_eval
from collections.abc import Iterator, Sequence
from typing import Union, overload

# mypy doesn't think you can pass the tuple to Union
BasicHashType = Union[int, float, complex, str, bool, bytes]
_ResultIdTuple = tuple[
    type[int] | type[float] | type[complex] | type[str] | type[bool] | type[bytes],
    ...,
]




class ResultHandle(Sequence):
    """Object to store multidimensional identifiers for a circuit sent to a backend for
    execution.

    Initialisation arguments must be hashable basic types.

    Note that a `ResultHandle` may be either persistent or transient, depending on the
    backend: consult the :py:attr:`pytket.backends.Backend.persistent_handles` property
    to determine this.
    """

    def __init__(self, *args: BasicHashType):
        self._identifiers = tuple(args)



    @classmethod
    def from_str(cls, string: str) -> "ResultHandle":
        """Construct ResultHandle from string (output from str())

        :raises ValueError: If string format is invalid
        :return: Instance of ResultHandle
        :rtype: ResultHandle
        """
        try:
            evaltuple = literal_eval(string)  # will raise ValueError if failed
            if (not isinstance(evaltuple, tuple)) or (
                not all(
                    isinstance(arg, (int, float, complex, str, bool, bytes))
                    for arg in evaltuple
                )
            ):
                raise ValueError  # type check failed
            return cls(*evaltuple)
        except ValueError:
            raise ValueError("ResultHandle string format invalid.")


    def __hash__(self) -> int:
        return hash(self._identifiers)

    def __eq__(self, other: object) -> bool:
        if not isinstance(other, ResultHandle):
            return NotImplemented
        return bool(self._identifiers == other._identifiers)

    def __str__(self) -> str:
        return str(self._identifiers)

    def __repr__(self) -> str:
        return "ResultHandle" + repr(self._identifiers)

    def __iter__(self) -> Iterator:
        return iter(self._identifiers)

    def __len__(self) -> int:
        return len(self._identifiers)

    @overload
    def __getitem__(self, key: int) -> BasicHashType: ...

    @overload
    def __getitem__(self, key: slice) -> tuple[BasicHashType, ...]: ...

    def __getitem__(
        self, key: int | slice
    ) -> BasicHashType | tuple[BasicHashType, ...]:
        # weird logic required to make mypy happy, can't just
        # return self._identifiers[key]
        if isinstance(key, slice):
            return self._identifiers[key]
        return self._identifiers[key]