[New-bugs-announce] [issue45183] Unexpected exception with zip importer

[Ronald Oussoren]

New submission from Ronald Oussoren <ronaldoussoren at mac.com>:

The attached file demonstrates the problem:

If importlib.invalidate_caches() is called while the zipfile used by the zip importer is not available the import system breaks entirely. I found this in a testsuite that accedently did this (it should have updated sys.path). 

I get the following exception:

$ python3.10 t.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/ronald/Projects/modulegraph2/t.py", line 27, in <module>
    import uu
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1027, in _find_and_load
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1002, in _find_and_load_unlocked
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 945, in _find_spec
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>", line 1430, in find_spec
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>", line 1402, in _get_spec
  File "<frozen zipimport>", line 168, in find_spec
  File "<frozen zipimport>", line 375, in _get_module_info
TypeError: argument of type 'NoneType' is not iterable


This exception is not very friendly....

This particular exception is caused by setting self._files to None in the importer's invalidate_caches method, while not checking for None in _get_modules_info. 

I'm not sure what the best fix would be, setting self._files to an empty list would likely be the easiest fix.

Note that the script runs without errors in Python 3.9.

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files: repro.py
keywords: 3.10regression
messages: 401698
nosy: ronaldoussoren
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Unexpected exception with zip importer
versions: Python 3.10, Python 3.11
Added file: https://bugs.python.org/file50279/repro.py

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