pydantic: Pydantic `__eq__` and `__hash__` doesn't work properly with `functools.cached_property`
Initial Checks
- I confirm that I’m using Pydantic V2
Description
Bug
While porting an app to Pydantic v2, I notice that the implementation of __eq__ doesn’t work properly on Model with functools.cached_property: equal instances can compare unequal.
From the documentation on computed fields, it seems pydantic should support functools.cached_property. I’m trying to compute an attribute value lazily and only once, because it is very expensive. functools.cached_property seems like the perfect tool for that.
Example 1 below demonstrate the problem, and Example 2 shows that this can introduce subtle bugs when using dict on “equal” objects, as dict relies on a correct __eq__ and __hash__.
Analysis
Line 831 from pydantic’s implementation of __eq__ seems to assumes that __dict__ only ever contains pydantic’s field values.
https://github.com/pydantic/pydantic/blob/c6e2f89f36805aef03194c366afb30faa798d188/pydantic/main.py#L829-L834
I think this is not true in the general case, as __dict__ is an instance state that is shared between pydantic and all other mechanism that need to act on the instance itself.
Indeed, functools.cached_property stores the computed value in the instance __dict__, because it is the only place it can reasonably store it:
Assuming that __dict__ only contains pydantic’s own fields has already been mentionned in #6422
Possible fix
I think the fix below limits the comparison of __dict__ to pydantic’s own fields. I don’t know much about pydantic source code, so there might be some rough edges I overlooked. I used a sentinel object as a default value to avoid crashing on missing fields, not sure it is actually necessary.
def __eq__(self, other):
...
sentinel = object()
return (
self_type == other_type
and all(
getattr(self, field, sentinel) == getattr(other, field, sentinel)
for field in self.model_fields
)
and self.__pydantic_private__ == other.__pydantic_private__
and self.__pydantic_extra__ == other.__pydantic_extra__
)
Related issues
- #6422 had a more obscure problem due to assuming
__dict__contains only pydantic fields
Additional context
Comparing the full __dict__ seems to be a change from pydantic V1. I would be interested in knowing why the full __dict__ is compared in V2.
Both attrs and the stdlib dataclasses work seamlessly with functools.cahced_property and only compare their own fields:
dataclasses __eq__
attrs __eq__
https://www.attrs.org/en/stable/comparison.html#comparison
Example Code
# ---------- Example 1 -------------
import functools
import pydantic
class Model(pydantic.BaseModel):
attr: int
@functools.cached_property
def cached(self) -> int:
return 0
obj1 = Model(attr=1)
obj2 = Model(attr=1)
assert obj1 == obj2 # works
obj1.cached
assert obj1 == obj2 # raises an error
# ---------- Example 2 -------------
import functools
import pydantic
class Model(pydantic.BaseModel):
model_config = pydantic.ConfigDict(frozen=True)
attr: int
@functools.cached_property
def cached(self) -> int:
return 0
obj1 = Model(attr=1)
obj2 = Model(attr=1)
d = {obj1: True}
assert d[obj2]
obj1.cached
assert d[obj2] # raise an error
Python, Pydantic & OS Version
Note: installed pydantic with "pip install git+https://github.com/pydantic/pydantic.git"
pydantic version: 2.3.0
pydantic-core version: 2.7.0
pydantic-core build: profile=release pgo=false
install path: ~/miniconda3/envs/dev-sandbox/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pydantic
python version: 3.8.17 | packaged by conda-forge | (default, Jun 16 2023, 07:11:34) [Clang 14.0.6 ]
platform: macOS-10.16-x86_64-i386-64bit
optional deps. installed: ['typing-extensions']
About this issue
- Original URL
- State: closed
- Created 10 months ago
- Reactions: 3
- Comments: 19 (19 by maintainers)
Commits related to this issue
- Add failing test case for #7444 — committed to QuentinSoubeyranAqemia/pydantic by QuentinSoubeyranAqemia 9 months ago
- fix #7444 with implementation benchmark — committed to QuentinSoubeyranAqemia/pydantic by QuentinSoubeyranAqemia 8 months ago
- Merge branch 'main' into gh-7444 — committed to QuentinSoubeyranAqemia/pydantic by QuentinSoubeyranAqemia 8 months ago
- fix #7444 with implementation benchmark — committed to QuentinSoubeyranAqemia/pydantic by QuentinSoubeyranAqemia 8 months ago
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@alexmojaki I’ve reviewed both, they basically seem good — thank you both for the detailed performance investigations and nuanced, correct(🤞) implementations.
I had note on #7786 that doesn’t necessarily need to be addressed before merging (my most recent comment), and I think that can be merged, and then I think #7825 can be merged once @alexmojaki’s comments on the PR are addressed.
I’ll leave it to @sydney-runkle to decide exactly when to merge, I think the plan was docs only changes prior to 2.5.0, but given it’s a bugfix maybe it can be in a quick 2.5.1.
I’ll take some time to experiment with
__eq__implementations, yes !I personally think it makes sense to just replace
self.__dict__ == other.__dict__in theBaseModel.__eq__with the relevant check for only fields. (i.e.,{k: self.__dict__.get(k) for k in self.model_fields} == {k: other.__dict__.get(k) for k in other.model_fields}, or perhaps something fancier/faster usingoperator.itemgetteras in @alexmojaki’s #7786).Even if it’s not quite as fast, I agree with the claims made here that
@cached_propertyshould behave as closely to@propertyas possible and not cause instances to not compare equal, same as the various other libraries referenced in the issue report.I think this is an excellent point. Put differently, if
@cached_propertysomehow worked another way and didn’t affect__dict__and thus__eq__then I don’t think it’d be considered a bug that__eq__returns True even if a cached property has only been accessed on one side. If that would somehow be considered a bug, then it’s a bug right now with@property.How about replacing:
with:
This should be:
self.__dict__ == other.__dict__should often be faster thanself.__dict__.keys() != other.__dict__.keys()since it doesn’t have to compare values, although that depends on several things.self_type == other_typeand instances of the same type will usually have the same.__dict__.keys().Moving the whole check to after checking
__pydantic_private__and__pydantic_extra__might also help.