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Title: warnings system and inspect module disagree about
Type: behavior Stage:
Components: Library (Lib) Versions:
process
Status: closed Resolution: duplicate
Dependencies: Superseder: broken pyc files
View: 1180193
Assigned To: Nosy List: amaury.forgeotdarc, exarkun
Priority: normal Keywords:

Created on 2009-01-05 16:00 by exarkun, last changed 2022-04-11 14:56 by admin. This issue is now closed.

Messages (4)
msg79159 - (view) Author: Jean-Paul Calderone (exarkun) * (Python committer) Date: 2009-01-05 16:00
Here's a transcript demonstrating the disagreement:

  exarkun@charm:~$ mkdir warningexample
  exarkun@charm:~$ cd warningexample/
  exarkun@charm:~/warningexample$ mkdir foo
  exarkun@charm:~/warningexample$ touch foo/__init__.py
  exarkun@charm:~/warningexample$ cat > foo/bar.py
  import warnings
  def foo():
        warnings.warn("foo")
  exarkun@charm:~/warningexample$ python -c 'import foo.bar'
  exarkun@charm:~/warningexample$ mv foo bar
  exarkun@charm:~/warningexample$ python -c 'import bar.bar; bar.bar.foo()'
  bar/bar.py:3: UserWarning: foo
    warnings.warn("foo")
  exarkun@charm:~/warningexample$ python -c 'import bar.bar, inspect;
print inspect.getabsfile(bar.bar.foo)'
  /home/exarkun/warningexample/foo/bar.py
  exarkun@charm:~/warningexample$ 

Notice that the warning is emitted for the file bar/bar.py but the
inspect module claims that the function which emitted the warning is
defined in /home/exarkun/warningexample/foo/bar.py.  It seems that the
warning system has somehow noticed that the .pyc file has the wrong
source file listed and has figured out the correct file name, whereas
the inspect module is blindly following the contents of the .pyc file.

It would be great if the inspect module were at least as good at
figuring out filenames as the warnings system.
msg79161 - (view) Author: Jean-Paul Calderone (exarkun) * (Python committer) Date: 2009-01-05 16:40
Perhaps even more disconcerting is the disagreement between
inspect.getabsfile(f) and inspect.getabsfile(inspect.getmodule(f)).  The
latter agrees with the warnings system, unlike the former which just
looks at the filename in the .pyc.
msg79164 - (view) Author: Amaury Forgeot d'Arc (amaury.forgeotdarc) * (Python committer) Date: 2009-01-05 16:55
This is a duplicate of issue1180193. Does the patch there correct your
problem?
msg79168 - (view) Author: Jean-Paul Calderone (exarkun) * (Python committer) Date: 2009-01-05 17:12
After updating the patch there so that it can be applied, it does seem
to address my issue.  I added a comment there.
History
Date User Action Args
2022-04-11 14:56:43adminsetgithub: 49095
2009-01-05 17:12:23exarkunsetmessages: + msg79168
2009-01-05 16:55:35amaury.forgeotdarcsetstatus: open -> closed
resolution: duplicate
superseder: broken pyc files
messages: + msg79164
nosy: + amaury.forgeotdarc
2009-01-05 16:40:20exarkunsetmessages: + msg79161
2009-01-05 16:00:39exarkuncreate