qapi: Replace List[str] with Sequence[str] for ifcond

It does happen to be a list (as of now), but we can describe it in more
general terms with no loss in accuracy to allow tuples and other
constructs.

In the future, we can write "ifcond: Sequence[str] = ()" as a default
parameter, which we could not do safely with a Mutable type like a List.

Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20210216021809.134886-2-jsnow@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
[Commit message tweaked]
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/scripts/qapi/gen.py b/scripts/qapi/gen.py
index 63549cc8d4..1fa503bdbd 100644
--- a/scripts/qapi/gen.py
+++ b/scripts/qapi/gen.py
@@ -17,8 +17,8 @@ import re
 from typing import (
     Dict,
     Iterator,
-    List,
     Optional,
+    Sequence,
     Tuple,
 )
 
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ class QAPIGen:
                 fp.write(text)
 
 
-def _wrap_ifcond(ifcond: List[str], before: str, after: str) -> str:
+def _wrap_ifcond(ifcond: Sequence[str], before: str, after: str) -> str:
     if before == after:
         return after   # suppress empty #if ... #endif
 
@@ -127,9 +127,9 @@ def build_params(arg_type: Optional[QAPISchemaObjectType],
 class QAPIGenCCode(QAPIGen):
     def __init__(self, fname: str):
         super().__init__(fname)
-        self._start_if: Optional[Tuple[List[str], str, str]] = None
+        self._start_if: Optional[Tuple[Sequence[str], str, str]] = None
 
-    def start_if(self, ifcond: List[str]) -> None:
+    def start_if(self, ifcond: Sequence[str]) -> None:
         assert self._start_if is None
         self._start_if = (ifcond, self._body, self._preamble)
 
@@ -187,11 +187,11 @@ class QAPIGenH(QAPIGenC):
 
 
 @contextmanager
-def ifcontext(ifcond: List[str], *args: QAPIGenCCode) -> Iterator[None]:
+def ifcontext(ifcond: Sequence[str], *args: QAPIGenCCode) -> Iterator[None]:
     """
     A with-statement context manager that wraps with `start_if()` / `end_if()`.
 
-    :param ifcond: A list of conditionals, passed to `start_if()`.
+    :param ifcond: A sequence of conditionals, passed to `start_if()`.
     :param args: any number of `QAPIGenCCode`.
 
     Example::