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Title: PyModule_GetState doesn't work with LazyLoader
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Components: C API Versions:
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Status: open Resolution:
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Assigned To: Nosy List: brett.cannon, corona10, petr.viktorin, shihai1991
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Created on 2020-09-16 13:23 by petr.viktorin, last changed 2022-04-11 14:59 by admin.

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msg376991 - (view) Author: Petr Viktorin (petr.viktorin) * (Python committer) Date: 2020-09-16 13:23
One underlying issue from bpo-41631 is that importlib.util.LazyLoader produces modules that are only fully loaded after an attribute is accessed (through __getattribute__).

C-API functions like PyModule_GetState, PyModule_GetDict and such do not get attributes, and when called on a _LazyModule, they might try to access uninitialized C-level state.

I see two possible ways to fix this:
- Make PyModule_GetState, etc. trigger a full load. Since this is C-API, it would need a fast (no Python code) way either to do the full load or to detect _LazyModule.
- Make LazyLoader eager for either all extension & builtin modules, or for modules that have C-level storage. The latter would need a way to pass info from PyModuleDef to the loader.


Brett, does that analysis make sense from the importlib POV?
msg377009 - (view) Author: Brett Cannon (brett.cannon) * (Python committer) Date: 2020-09-16 18:33
Probably making LazyLoader skip being lazy for non-source modules probably makes the most sense and would be easiest to implement since it's an explicit opt-out.
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2022-04-11 14:59:35adminsetgithub: 85963
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