[New-bugs-announce] [issue29830] pyexpat.errors doesn't have __spec__ and __loader__ set

[Manuel Jacob]

New submission from Manuel Jacob:

The same applies to pyexpat.model.

It seems like pyexpat is the only builtin module which has submodules (errors, model).

Normally, as I understand it, the module gets imported given a spec and the import machinery ensures that this spec ends up in the __spec__ attribute of the module.  But in this case only pyexpat gets imported by importlib.  The submodules are added when initializing the module.

Also, importlib's BuiltinImporter assumes that a builtin module is never a package.  Is this reasonable in this case?

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messages: 289737
nosy: mjacob
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: pyexpat.errors doesn't have __spec__ and __loader__ set

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