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Inconsistent sys.path between python and pdb #86550

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hexagonrecursion mannequin opened this issue Nov 17, 2020 · 8 comments
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Inconsistent sys.path between python and pdb #86550

hexagonrecursion mannequin opened this issue Nov 17, 2020 · 8 comments

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hexagonrecursion mannequin commented Nov 17, 2020

BPO 42384
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  • bpo-42384: pdb: correctly populate sys.path[0] #23338
  • [3.9] bpo-42384: pdb: correctly populate sys.path[0] (GH-23338) #24290
  • [3.8] bpo-42384: pdb: correctly populate sys.path[0] (GH-23338) #24291
  • [3.8] bpo-42384: pdb: correctly populate sys.path[0] (GH-23338) #24320
  • [3.9] bpo-42384: pdb: correctly populate sys.path[0] (GH-23338) #24321
  • bpo-42383: pdb: do not fail to restart the target if the current directory changed #23412
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    hexagonrecursion mannequin commented Nov 17, 2020

    The first entry in sys.path is different between python foo.py and python -m pdb foo.py. In the former it is the absolute path to the parent directory of foo.py while in the later it is a relative path (unless the debug target was specified using an absolute path). The meaning of the absolute path does not change when the current directory changes (e.g. via os.chdir()) while the meaning of the relative path does. Like any environment inconsistency between regular program execution and the debugger this may lead to bugs that mysteriously vanish when you try to debug them.

    $ cat > print-path.py
import sys
from pprint import pprint
    pprint(sys.path)
$ python3 print-path.py 
['/home/user',
 '/usr/lib64/python38.zip',
 '/usr/lib64/python3.8',
 '/usr/lib64/python3.8/lib-dynload',
 '/usr/lib64/python3.8/site-packages',
 '/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages']
$ python3 -m pdb print-path.py                                  
> /home/user/print-path.py(1)<module>()
-> import sys
(Pdb) c
['',
 '/usr/lib64/python38.zip',
 '/usr/lib64/python3.8',
 '/usr/lib64/python3.8/lib-dynload',
 '/usr/lib64/python3.8/site-packages',
 '/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages']

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    hexagonrecursion mannequin commented Nov 17, 2020

    I'll look into fixing this after I fix bpo-42383

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    hexagonrecursion mannequin commented Nov 17, 2020

    After reading Lib/pdb.py:main I believe I can fix both by changing a single line.

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    New changeset 8603dfb by Andrey Bienkowski in branch 'master':
    bpo-42384: pdb: correctly populate sys.path[0] (GH-23338)
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    Hey Andrey, this has been merged into 3.10, but the backports didn't work because the structure of the tests has changed (os_helper doesn't exist). Do you want to fix these?

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    hexagonrecursion mannequin commented Jan 22, 2021

    I'll give it a try

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    New changeset f2df795 by Andrey Bienkowski in branch '3.9':
    [3.9] bpo-42384: pdb: correctly populate sys.path[0] (GH-23338) (bpo-24321)
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    New changeset c10180e by Andrey Bienkowski in branch '3.8':
    [3.8] bpo-42384: pdb: correctly populate sys.path[0] (GH-23338) (bpo-24320)
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