New submission from Alexander Todorov:
$ python2
Python 2.7.5 (default, Oct 11 2015, 17:47:16)
[GCC 4.8.3 20140911 (Red Hat 4.8.3-9)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import inspect
>>> from pykickstart import handlers
>>> inspect.getsource(handlers)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/inspect.py", line 701, in getsource
lines, lnum = getsourcelines(object)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/inspect.py", line 690, in getsourcelines
lines, lnum = findsource(object)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/inspect.py", line 538, in findsource
raise IOError('could not get source code')
IOError: could not get source code
>>>
There is a `pykickstart/handlers/__init__.py` file which is empty and the above
import works fine as you can see. However `inspect.findsource` raises an
exception. The same problem exists in Python 3.5 as well. The error comes from
here:
532 module = getmodule(object, file)
533 if module:
534 lines = linecache.getlines(file, module.__dict__)
535 else:
536 lines = linecache.getlines(file)
537 if not lines:
538 raise IOError('could not get source code')
At this point `lines` is an empty list and we raise the exception. I'm hitting
this problem when using a mutation testing tool that relies on getsource (which
calls findsource).
One possible workaround is to add a comment in the __init__.py file and
everything seems to be working then. Another one is to patch the tool I'm using
to take into account empty __init__.py files.
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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 270867
nosy: Alexander Todorov
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: inspect.findsource raises exception with empty __init__.py
type: behavior
versions: Python 2.7, Python 3.5
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<http://bugs.python.org/issue27578>
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