[New-bugs-announce] [issue45651] -X frozen_modules not defaulting to "on" on Windows?

[Eric Snow]

New submission from Eric Snow <ericsnowcurrently at gmail.com>:

(forked from https://bugs.python.org/issue45020#msg404344)

On Mon, Oct 18, 2021 at 7:14 PM Guido van Rossum <report at bugs.python.org> wrote:
> I built on Windows with default options (PCbuild\build.bat) and it looks like the frozen modules are used by default even though I am running in the source directory. (I put a printf() call in unmarshal_frozen_code().)

We need to verify if this is still the case.  First we need to make sure there's a test that checks the default (both when running out of the source tree and when not).  I suspect the case Guido observed hasn't been fixed yet.

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components: Interpreter Core
messages: 405201
nosy: FFY00, eric.snow
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: -X frozen_modules not defaulting to "on" on Windows?
type: behavior
versions: Python 3.11

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