[IronPython] Issues with Silly Module Tricks

[Jeff Hardy]

Hi Dino,
Thanks for the gory details. I'll try again in a couple of releases.

-Jeff

On Nov 28, 2007 11:49 AM, Dino Viehland <dinov at exchange.microsoft.com> wrote:
> Thanks for the bug report.  There's actually a few issues here:
>
>        types.ModuleType is actually SystemState (you can see this by doing import clr; clr.GetClrType(types.ModuleType))
>        ScriptModule (the type we use to represent module's currently) is currently sealed, so you can't inherit from it if you were getting the right type
>        We don't support __getattr__ / __getattribute__ on types that implement ICustomMembers (which SystemState does).
>
> If you want the nitty gritty details:
>
> The 1st problem is a long-lived problem where we do type impersonation on the SystemState to make it look like a module.  SystemState then implements ICustomMembers so that arbitrary things can be get/set on it which brings us to the 3rd problem.  Before v2.0 is done I suspect that this is going to change and "sys" will be just a normal module.  ICustomMembers will also be going away and get replaced with operators used for lookup - the operators will actually compose correctly and your __getattr__ should get called.
>
> The 2nd problem is currently a DLR problem.  Currently we have a concept of modules in the DLR but that's going away soon.  When that happens ScriptModule (in the most recent code it's not ScriptScope) will be PythonModule and we'll enable inheritance again.
>
> I've opened bug #14147 (http://www.codeplex.com/IronPython/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=14147) to track the issue until all of this gets fixed but unfortunately it's going to take a little time.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: users-bounces at lists.ironpython.com [mailto:users-bounces at lists.ironpython.com] On Behalf Of Jeff Hardy
> Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2007 7:40 PM
> To: Discussion of IronPython
> Subject: [IronPython] Issues with Silly Module Tricks
>
> Hi,
> The following code is adapted from the Pygments library:
>
> automod_test.py
> import types
>
> class _automodule(types.ModuleType):
>    """Automatically import lexers."""
>
>    def __getattr__(self, name):
>        return "blah"
>
> import sys
> oldmod = sys.modules['automod_test']
> newmod = _automodule('automod_test')
> newmod.__dict__.update(oldmod.__dict__)
> sys.modules['automod_test'] = newmod
> del newmod.newmod, newmod.oldmod, newmod.sys, newmod.types
>
> When run, I get the following results:
> Python 2.4.4 (#71, Oct 18 2006, 08:34:43) [MSC v.1310 32 bit (Intel)] on win32
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
> >>> import automod_test
> >>> automod_test.blah
> 'blah'
>
> IronPython console: IronPython 2.0A6 (2.0.11102.00) on .NET 2.0.50727.312
> Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
> >>> import automod_test
> >>> automod_test.blah
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File , line 0, in ##268
> AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'blah'
>
> I'm not sure whether the issue is with replacing sys.modules, or if it
> is related to the __getattr__ issues that were reported a while back.
> Either way, it prevents Pygments from getting past even the first
> round of tests.
>
> -Jeff
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