On Mon, Feb 07, 2022 at 09:27:28PM +0000, Julian Gilbey wrote: > [...] > > I thought I could address this issue by replacing the vendored copies > of the library modules by symlinks to /usr/lib/python3.X/, but now > I've hit another snag: some of these modules import other modules. > For example: > > pydev_imps/_pydev_SimpleXMLRPCServer.py > is a very old version of /usr/lib/python3.X/xmlrpc/server.py. It > contains within it the following lines: > > from _pydev_imps import _pydev_xmlrpclib as xmlrpclib > from _pydev_imps._pydev_xmlrpclib import Fault > from _pydev_imps import _pydev_SocketServer as SocketServer > from _pydev_imps import _pydev_BaseHTTPServer as BaseHTTPServer > [...] > Perhaps another possibility is to have symlinks in the _pydev_imps > directory to the standard library versions and then temporarily modify > sys.path to look in _pydev_imps before looking in standard locations. > I don't know whether this will work, though.
I realise now that this "nice" solution won't work, as the standard library code says: import socketserver so modifying sys.path will just change the value of sys.modules["socketserver"]. However, the vendored code instead loads this module to sys.modules["_pydev_imps._pydev_SocketServer"] or something like that, deliberately avoiding interfering with sys.modules["socketserver"]. Ho hum. Julian
