New submission from Brett Cannon: If you import the frozen __phello__ package, you will notice that __phello__.__path__ == ['__phello__']. While that seems innocuous, that could potentially lead to incorrect results if there just so happens to be a directory named __phello__ which contains a file that isn't a frozen submodule (i.e. FrozenImporter can't find the submodule but PathFinder can find a file that happens to match the module's name).
So for that reason I want to simply set __path__ = [] for frozen packages. The language reference for import states setting __path__ to anything makes a module a package and that it just needs to be an iterable that only returns strings (http://docs.python.org/3.4/reference/import.html#packages), so an empty list works. Plus __package__ contains the same information so there is no lost data by doing this. Can anyone think of a good reason not to do this? I can't see why someone would be relying upon this for any reason since the existence of __path__ itself is enough to determine something is a package. ---------- assignee: brett.cannon components: Interpreter Core messages: 190034 nosy: brett.cannon priority: normal severity: normal stage: test needed status: open title: set __path__ = [] for frozen packages type: behavior versions: Python 3.4 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue18065> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
