New submission from Matteo Bertini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Playing with PyInstaller I have found that the final part of _elementtree.c:
Index: Modules/_elementtree.c =================================================================== --- Modules/_elementtree.c (revisione 59540) +++ Modules/_elementtree.c (copia locale) @@ -2780,7 +2780,10 @@ ); - PyRun_String(bootstrap, Py_file_input, g, NULL); + if (PyRun_String(bootstrap, Py_file_input, g, NULL) == NULL) + return; elementpath_obj = PyDict_GetItemString(g, "ElementPath"); execute a bit of python code without checking the return value. That can lead to weird things playing with import hooks, for example an assert like this can fail: Index: Lib/test/test_elemettree.py =================================================================== --- Lib/test/test_elemettree.py (revisione 0) +++ Lib/test/test_elemettree.py (revisione 0) @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +#! /usr/bin/env python + +def importHook(*args, **kwargs): + if 'xml.etree' in args: + raise ImportError + else: + return __real__import__(*args, **kwargs) + +import os +import __builtin__ +__real__import__ = __builtin__.__import__ +__builtin__.__import__ = importHook + +try: + import xml.etree.cElementTree as cET +except ImportError: + pass +else: + out = os.popen("python -c 'import xml.etree.cElementTree as cET; print dir(cET)'").read().strip() + assert str(dir(cET)) == out, (str(dir(cET)), out) + ---------- components: XML messages: 70488 nosy: naufraghi severity: normal status: open title: _elementtree.c import can fail silently versions: Python 2.5 _______________________________________ Python tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.python.org/issue3475> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com