To resolve a compatibility problem found with py2exe and
pywin32, imp.load_dynamic() once again ignores previously loaded modules
to support Python modules replacing themselves with extension modules.
Patch by Petr Viktorin.
_testmultiphase and xxlimited now use tp_traverse and
tp_finalize to avoid reference leaks encountered when
combining tp_dealloc with PyType_FromSpec (see
issue #16690 for details)
- missing DECREF in PyModule_FromDefAndSpec2
- missing DECREF in PyType_FromSpecAndBases2
- missing DECREF in _testmultiphase module
Patch by Petr Viktorin
Known limitations of the current implementation:
- documentation changes are incomplete
- there's a reference leak I haven't tracked down yet
The leak is most visible by running:
./python -m test -R3:3 test_importlib
However, you can also see it by running:
./python -X showrefcount
Importing the array or _testmultiphase modules, and
then deleting them from both sys.modules and the local
namespace shows significant increases in the total
number of active references each cycle. By contrast,
with _testcapi (which continues to use single-phase
initialisation) the global refcounts stabilise after
a couple of cycles.
Nick Coghlan
Benjamin Peterson