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resolved #5895

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  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved validation to prevent negative durations when converting from Python objects, ensuring that negative values now raise clear errors.
  • New Features

    • Enhanced error messaging for invalid sleep durations, providing a more user-friendly message when a negative duration is specified.
  • Refactor

    • Updated the sleep function to accept a wider range of Python objects for specifying sleep duration, increasing flexibility in usage.
    • Unified and simplified platform-specific sleep handling for better consistency across environments.

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The changes update the TryFromObject implementation for std::time::Duration to explicitly reject negative values from Python floats and integers, raising a ValueError. The time.sleep function is refactored to accept a generic Python object for seconds, convert to Duration, improve error messaging for negative values, and unify Unix/non-Unix implementations.

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File(s) Change Summary
vm/src/convert/try_from.rs Added explicit negative value checks for float and integer conversions to Duration.
vm/src/stdlib/time.rs Refactored sleep to accept a Python object, convert to Duration, improve error messaging, remove old Unix-specific sleep, and unify Unix/non-Unix implementations.

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sequenceDiagram
    participant PythonCode
    participant time_sleep
    participant TryFromObject
    participant RustDuration

    PythonCode->>time_sleep: Call sleep(seconds)
    time_sleep->>TryFromObject: Convert seconds to Duration
    TryFromObject->>TryFromObject: Check if value is negative
    alt Negative value
        TryFromObject-->>time_sleep: Return ValueError("negative duration")
        time_sleep-->>PythonCode: Raise ValueError("sleep length must be non-negative")
    else Non-negative value
        TryFromObject-->>time_sleep: Return Duration
        time_sleep->>RustDuration: Sleep for Duration
        time_sleep-->>PythonCode: Return successfully
    end
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Objective Addressed Explanation
Raise exception when time.sleep is called with a negative value (#5895)
Prevent panic when negative values are passed to time.sleep (#5895)
Provide user-friendly error message for negative sleep durations (#5895)

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Guarding sleep from negative deeps.
With checks in place, no panic’s found—
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Summary of Changes

Hello @ever0de, I'm Gemini Code Assist1! I'm currently reviewing this pull request and will post my feedback shortly. In the meantime, here's a summary to help you and other reviewers quickly get up to speed!

This pull request addresses issue #5895 by ensuring that negative values passed to the time.sleep function are correctly handled. It introduces validation at the Duration conversion level to prevent negative durations from being created and refines the error message presented to the user when time.sleep receives a negative argument, providing a clearer and more consistent experience.

Highlights

  • Input Validation for Duration Conversion: Implemented robust checks within the TryFromObject implementation for std::time::Duration. This now prevents the creation of Duration objects from negative Python float or integer values, raising a ValueError with the message "negative duration" if such an attempt is made.
  • Enhanced time.sleep Error Handling: The time.sleep function (for both Unix and non-Unix platforms) has been updated to accept a generic Python object. It now performs explicit type conversion to Duration and includes specific error handling to catch the "negative duration" ValueError from the Duration conversion. This error is then re-raised with a more user-friendly message: "sleep length must be non-negative", aligning with standard Python behavior.
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This pull request implements handling for negative sleep values by raising a ValueError. The changes in vm/src/convert/try_from.rs to detect negative numbers when converting to a Duration are well-implemented. The error handling logic for sleep in vm/src/stdlib/time.rs is duplicated across the unix and not(unix) implementations. Refactoring this for better readability and to address the duplication is recommended.

Comment on lines 94 to 108
let dur = seconds.try_into_value::<Duration>(vm).map_err(|e| {
if e.class().is(vm.ctx.exceptions.value_error) {
// Check if this is a "negative duration" error by examining the args
if let Some(args) = e.args().first() {
if let Ok(s) = args.str(vm) {
if s.as_str() == "negative duration" {
return vm.new_value_error("sleep length must be non-negative");
}
}
}
e
} else {
e
}
})?;

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This error mapping logic is verbose and duplicated in the unix implementation of sleep (lines 712-726). Relying on string matching for error messages can be fragile. Consider extracting this logic into a helper function to avoid duplication.

        let dur = seconds.try_into_value::<Duration>(vm).map_err(|e| {
            if e.class().is(vm.ctx.exceptions.value_error) {
                if let Some(s) = e.args().first().and_then(|arg| arg.str(vm).ok()) {
                    if s.as_str() == "negative duration" {
                        return vm.new_value_error("sleep length must be non-negative");
                    }
                }
            }
            e
        })?;

Comment on lines 712 to 726
let dur = seconds.try_into_value::<Duration>(vm).map_err(|e| {
if e.class().is(vm.ctx.exceptions.value_error) {
// Check if this is a "negative duration" error by examining the args
if let Some(args) = e.args().first() {
if let Ok(s) = args.str(vm) {
if s.as_str() == "negative duration" {
return vm.new_value_error("sleep length must be non-negative");
}
}
}
e
} else {
e
}
})?;

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This duplicates the error mapping logic in the non-unix sleep function (lines 94-108). Code duplication can lead to maintenance issues. Extract this logic into a shared private helper function used by both sleep implementations.

        let dur = seconds.try_into_value::<Duration>(vm).map_err(|e| {
            if e.class().is(vm.ctx.exceptions.value_error) {
                if let Some(s) = e.args().first().and_then(|arg| arg.str(vm).ok()) {
                    if s.as_str() == "negative duration" {
                        return vm.new_value_error("sleep length must be non-negative");
                    }
                }
            }
            e
        })?;

@ever0de ever0de changed the title fix(time): Handle negative sleep values Handle negative time.sleep values Jul 6, 2025
Comment on lines +94 to +103
let dur = seconds.try_into_value::<Duration>(vm).map_err(|e| {
if e.class().is(vm.ctx.exceptions.value_error) {
if let Some(s) = e.args().first().and_then(|arg| arg.str(vm).ok()) {
if s.as_str() == "negative duration" {
return vm.new_value_error("sleep length must be non-negative");
}
}
}
e
})?;
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Now the two sleep functions share the same error handling.
Originally, the reason they were split was because they didn’t share any logic, so keeping them separate was simpler.
But that’s no longer the case.
Let’s remove #[cfg(not(unix))] from this function and make it the sole function responsible for validating the parameters of sleep.
We should move the cfg checks to the actual implementation instead.

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Currently, the sleep function is implemented directly in the decl module with cfg blocks for platform-specific implementations:

#[pyfunction]
fn sleep(seconds: PyObjectRef, vm: &VirtualMachine) -> PyResult<()> {
    let dur = seconds.try_into_value::<Duration>(vm).map_err(..)?;

    #[cfg(unix)]
    {
        // Unix-specific nanosleep implementation
    }
    #[cfg(not(unix))]
    {
        // std::thread::sleep for other platforms
    }
}

Other functions pattern:

// decl module
#[pyfunction]
fn monotonic(vm: &VirtualMachine) -> PyResult<f64> {
    Ok(get_monotonic_time(vm)?.as_secs_f64())
}

// platform module  
pub(super) fn get_monotonic_time(vm: &VirtualMachine) -> PyResult<Duration> {
    // Platform-specific implementation
}

Should we refactor sleep to follow the platform pattern for consistency, or it's not necessary since sleep isn't reused and would only involve simple wrapping?

@@ -691,8 +703,17 @@ mod platform {
}

#[pyfunction]
fn sleep(dur: Duration, vm: &VirtualMachine) -> PyResult<()> {
// this is basically std::thread::sleep, but that catches interrupts and we don't want to;
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