From 78447bb4f48b88dc18bcc0e4e05ce7120d084ce5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniel Watkins <daniel.watkins@canonical.com>
Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2018 20:23:58 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Implement no-arg dict builtin

---
 tests/snippets/builtin_dict.py | 1 +
 vm/src/builtins.rs             | 9 ++++++++-
 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
 create mode 100644 tests/snippets/builtin_dict.py

diff --git a/tests/snippets/builtin_dict.py b/tests/snippets/builtin_dict.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..8fe70d51a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/snippets/builtin_dict.py
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+assert len(dict()) == 0
diff --git a/vm/src/builtins.rs b/vm/src/builtins.rs
index 6c2e47316..8f0a5b651 100644
--- a/vm/src/builtins.rs
+++ b/vm/src/builtins.rs
@@ -69,7 +69,13 @@ fn builtin_compile(vm: &mut VirtualMachine, args: PyFuncArgs) -> PyResult {
 
 // builtin_complex
 // builtin_delattr
-// builtin_dict
+
+fn builtin_dict(vm: &mut VirtualMachine, args: PyFuncArgs) -> PyResult {
+    if !args.args.is_empty() {
+        unimplemented!("only zero-arg version of dict is currently supported")
+    }
+    Ok(vm.new_dict())
+}
 
 fn builtin_dir(vm: &mut VirtualMachine, args: PyFuncArgs) -> PyResult {
     if args.args.is_empty() {
@@ -237,6 +243,7 @@ pub fn make_module(ctx: &PyContext) -> PyObjectRef {
     dict.insert(String::from("all"), ctx.new_rustfunc(builtin_all));
     dict.insert(String::from("any"), ctx.new_rustfunc(builtin_any));
     dict.insert(String::from("compile"), ctx.new_rustfunc(builtin_compile));
+    dict.insert(String::from("dict"), ctx.new_rustfunc(builtin_dict));
     dict.insert(String::from("dir"), ctx.new_rustfunc(builtin_dir));
     dict.insert(String::from("eval"), ctx.new_rustfunc(builtin_eval));
     dict.insert(String::from("id"), ctx.new_rustfunc(builtin_id));