handle nested symbols in dynamic slicer

[ipyflow]

handle nested symbols in dynamic slicer

[smacke]

Actually, I think this could be done in attrsub_tracer without too much difficulty. Whenever the obj_name parameter is non-null, then we can lookup the corresponding symbol in the tracer's current active scope and mark it as a dynamic usage. This is true regardless of whether the final object in the chain ends up being loaded, stored, or deleted. When obj_name is null, typically the actual obj is being returned from somewhere else and we don't need to worry about marking its corresponding symbol as dynamically used since that will happen at that same somewhere else.

We do, however, need to mark methods as used, and this might require some extra work since we can't just use obj_name for these.

[smacke]

cc @shreyashankar

Untested code for attrsub_tracer that might get us most of the way there:

if sym_for_obj is None and obj_name is not None:
    sym_for_obj = self.active_scope.lookup_data_symbol_by_name_this_indentation(obj_name)
if sym_for_obj is not None and sym_for_obj.defined_cell_num < nbs().cell_counter():
    sym_for_obj.version_by_used_timestamp[nbs().cell_counter()] = sym_for_obj.defined_cell_num

Can insert this snippet right below this line in attrsub_tracer.

This is untested though and there may be more to do there. For example, If we have

obj.foo()['bar']

I don't know whether it will correctly identify the usage of obj.foo (whose usage is not captured by the code snippet above; obj_name will be None since the object being subscripted is the thing that gets retuned from obj.foo(), not obj.foo).

Also it's worth testing on various aliasing scenarios.