Allowing -b (BytesWarning) to be activated in other ways
Hi Pythonistas,
The -b flag, which turns on checks which emit BytesWarnings on operations mixing bytes and str objects, is very useful.
However, the only way to set this flag is via the Python invocation. This limits its usability in contexts where the user's control of the Python invocation is limited, e.g when using Python embedded in another executable (such as uwsgi). There appears to be no function which can set the flag, and no environment variable which controls it.
Up to Python 3.7, the extension module provided by the bytes-warning package[1] works around this (it exposes a function which allows setting the flag from within Python). But with 3.8 (and I suspect, because of PEP-587[2] related changes), this fails silently and the sys flag bytes_warning remains unaffected.
Can we have a non-invocation way to control this flag?
Thanks, Shai.
[1] https://pypi.org/project/bytes-warning/ [2] https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0587/
I honestly wouldn't expect that flag to last forever because it exists purely to help with Python 2 -> 3 transitions. Since it fundamentally changes how things like comparison and `str()` work it isn't something to flip on needlessly and you would be better off using a type checker or linter to look for those sorts of errors.
As such, changing the C API specifically for this flag isn't something I personally would want to see.
On Thu, Jul 16, 2020 at 8:17 AM Shai Berger shai@platonix.com wrote:
Hi Pythonistas,
The -b flag, which turns on checks which emit BytesWarnings on operations mixing bytes and str objects, is very useful.
However, the only way to set this flag is via the Python invocation. This limits its usability in contexts where the user's control of the Python invocation is limited, e.g when using Python embedded in another executable (such as uwsgi). There appears to be no function which can set the flag, and no environment variable which controls it.
Up to Python 3.7, the extension module provided by the bytes-warning package[1] works around this (it exposes a function which allows setting the flag from within Python). But with 3.8 (and I suspect, because of PEP-587[2] related changes), this fails silently and the sys flag bytes_warning remains unaffected.
Can we have a non-invocation way to control this flag?
Thanks, Shai.
[1] https://pypi.org/project/bytes-warning/ [2] https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0587/ _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-leave@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/FV37A5... Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
16.07.20 20:05, Brett Cannon пише:
I honestly wouldn't expect that flag to last forever because it exists purely to help with Python 2 -> 3 transitions. Since it fundamentally changes how things like comparison and `str()` work it isn't something to flip on needlessly and you would be better off using a type checker or linter to look for those sorts of errors.
As such, changing the C API specifically for this flag isn't something I personally would want to see.
Seconded.
On 16/07/2020 16.38, Shai Berger wrote:
Hi Pythonistas,
The -b flag, which turns on checks which emit BytesWarnings on operations mixing bytes and str objects, is very useful.
However, the only way to set this flag is via the Python invocation. This limits its usability in contexts where the user's control of the Python invocation is limited, e.g when using Python embedded in another executable (such as uwsgi). There appears to be no function which can set the flag, and no environment variable which controls it.
Up to Python 3.7, the extension module provided by the bytes-warning package[1] works around this (it exposes a function which allows setting the flag from within Python). But with 3.8 (and I suspect, because of PEP-587[2] related changes), this fails silently and the sys flag bytes_warning remains unaffected.
Can we have a non-invocation way to control this flag?
You can use ctypes to modify bytes warnings. I'm using this trick in FreeIPA. It works up to Python 3.7. For Python 3.8 and newer you to modify the bytes_warning member of the current interpreter.
https://github.com/freeipa/freeipa/blob/53d472b490ac7a14fc78516b448d4aa312b7...
Christian
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