Support for bytes broke sometime between Python 3.2 and 3.6 and has been broken ever since. Trying to bring back supports is surprisingly difficult in the face of -b and checking for keys in sys.path_importer_cache. Since the support was broken for so long, trying to overcome the difficulty of bringing back the support has been deemed not worth it.
Co-authored-by: Eryk Sun <eryksun@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Brett Cannon <brett@python.org>
Broadened scope of the document to explicitly discuss and differentiate between ``__main__.py`` in packages versus the ``__name__ == '__main__'`` expression (and the idioms that surround it), as well as ``import __main__``.
Co-authored-by: Géry Ogam <gery.ogam@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Éric Araujo <merwok@netwok.org>
Co-authored-by: Łukasz Langa <lukasz@langa.pl>
@ericsnowcurrently This PR will change the following:
In the library documentation importlib.rst:
- `module.__package__` can be `module.__name__` for packages;
- `spec.parent` can be `spec.__name__` for packages;
- `spec.loader` is not `None` for namespaces packages.
In the language documentation import.rst:
- `spec.loader` is not `None` for namespace packages.
Automerge-Triggered-By: GH:warsaw
The importlib.metadata documentation uses hardcoded links to internal
pages. This results in minor rendering issues. This change replaces
the hardcoded links with suitable Sphinx roles.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Höfling <oleg.hoefling@gmail.com>
Python now supports checking bytecode cache up-to-dateness with a hash of the
source contents rather than volatile source metadata. See the PEP for details.
While a fairly straightforward idea, quite a lot of code had to be modified due
to the pervasiveness of pyc implementation details in the codebase. Changes in
this commit include:
- The core changes to importlib to understand how to read, validate, and
regenerate hash-based pycs.
- Support for generating hash-based pycs in py_compile and compileall.
- Modifications to our siphash implementation to support passing a custom
key. We then expose it to importlib through _imp.
- Updates to all places in the interpreter, standard library, and tests that
manually generate or parse pyc files to grok the new format.
- Support in the interpreter command line code for long options like
--check-hash-based-pycs.
- Tests and documentation for all of the above.
In a previous change, __spec__.parent was prioritized over
__package__. That is a backwards-compatibility break, but we do
eventually want __spec__ to be the ground truth for module details. So
this change reverts the change in semantics and instead raises an
ImportWarning when __package__ != __spec__.parent to give people time
to adjust to using spec objects.
not defined for a relative import.
This is the start of work to try and clean up import semantics to rely
more on a module's spec than on the myriad attributes that get set on
a module. Thanks to Rose Ames for the patch.
The concept of .pyo files no longer exists. Now .pyc files have an
optional `opt-` tag which specifies if any extra optimizations beyond
the peepholer were applied.
importlib.abc.Loader.exec_module() is also defined.
Before this change, create_module() was optional **and** could return
None to trigger default semantics. This change now reduces the
options for choosing default semantics to one and in the most
backporting-friendly way (define create_module() to return None).
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Thomas Grainger
Ned Batchelder
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Christian Clauss
Jack DeVries
Furkan Onder
Brett Cannon
Géry Ogam
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Bonifacio de Oliveira
Oleg Höfling
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Joannah Nanjekye
Serhiy Storchaka
Andrés Delfino
Brett Cannon
Benjamin Peterson
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Dominik Miedziński
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Eric Snow
Berker Peksag
Georg Brandl
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