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  r81364 | victor.stinner | 2010-05-19 22:40:50 +0200 (mer., 19 mai 2010) | 3 lines

  Issue #8766: Initialize _warnings module before importing the first module.
  Fix a crash if an empty directory called "encodings" exists in sys.path.
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Lib/test/test_warnings.py

@@ -4,6 +4,9 @@ import os
 from io import StringIO
 import sys
 import unittest
+import shutil
+import tempfile
+import subprocess
 from test import support
 
 from test import warning_tests
@@ -670,18 +673,46 @@ class PyCatchWarningTests(CatchWarningTests):
     module = py_warnings
 
 
+class BootstrapTest(unittest.TestCase):
+    def test_issue_8766(self):
+        # "import encodings" emits a warning whereas the warnings is not loaded
+        # or not completly loaded (warnings imports indirectly encodings by
+        # importing linecache) yet
+        old_cwd = os.getcwd()
+        try:
+            cwd = tempfile.mkdtemp()
+            try:
+                os.chdir(cwd)
+                os.mkdir('encodings')
+                env = os.environ.copy()
+                env['PYTHONPATH'] = cwd
+
+                # encodings loaded by initfsencoding()
+                retcode = subprocess.call([sys.executable, '-c', 'pass'], env=env)
+                self.assertEqual(retcode, 0)
+
+                # Use -W to load warnings module at startup
+                retcode = subprocess.call(
+                    [sys.executable, '-c', 'pass', '-W', 'always'],
+                    env=env)
+                self.assertEqual(retcode, 0)
+            finally:
+                shutil.rmtree(cwd)
+        finally:
+            os.chdir(old_cwd)
+
 def test_main():
     py_warnings.onceregistry.clear()
     c_warnings.onceregistry.clear()
-    support.run_unittest(CFilterTests,
+    support.run_unittest(
-                                PyFilterTests,
+        CFilterTests, PyFilterTests,
-                                CWarnTests,
+        CWarnTests, PyWarnTests,
-                                PyWarnTests,
+        CWCmdLineTests, PyWCmdLineTests,
-                                CWCmdLineTests, PyWCmdLineTests,
+        _WarningsTests,
-                                _WarningsTests,
+        CWarningsDisplayTests, PyWarningsDisplayTests,
-                                CWarningsDisplayTests, PyWarningsDisplayTests,
+        CCatchWarningTests, PyCatchWarningTests,
-                                CCatchWarningTests, PyCatchWarningTests,
+        BootstrapTest,
-                             )
+    )
 
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":

Misc/NEWS

@@ -12,6 +12,9 @@ What's New in Python 3.1.3?
 Core and Builtins
 -----------------
 
+- Issue #8766: Initialize _warnings module before importing the first module.
+  Fix a crash if an empty directory called "encodings" exists in sys.path.
+
 - PyObject_Dump() encodes unicode objects to utf8 with backslashreplace
   (instead of strict) error handler to escape surrogates
 

Python/_warnings.c

@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ get_filter(PyObject *category, PyObject *text, Py_ssize_t lineno,
         _filters = warnings_filters;
     }
 
-    if (!PyList_Check(_filters)) {
+    if (_filters == NULL || !PyList_Check(_filters)) {
         PyErr_SetString(PyExc_ValueError,
                         MODULE_NAME ".filters must be a list");
         return NULL;

Python/pythonrun.c

@@ -264,6 +264,9 @@ Py_InitializeEx(int install_sigs)
 
     _PyImportHooks_Init();
 
+    /* Initialize _warnings. */
+    _PyWarnings_Init();
+
 #if defined(HAVE_LANGINFO_H) && defined(CODESET)
     /* On Unix, set the file system encoding according to the
        user's preference, if the CODESET names a well-known
@@ -284,7 +287,6 @@ Py_InitializeEx(int install_sigs)
         initsigs(); /* Signal handling stuff, including initintr() */
 
     /* Initialize warnings. */
-    _PyWarnings_Init();
     if (PySys_HasWarnOptions()) {
         PyObject *warnings_module = PyImport_ImportModule("warnings");
         if (!warnings_module)