[Python-Dev] how important is setting co_filename for a module being imported to what __file__ is set to?
Michael Foord
fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk
Mon Aug 31 15:27:25 CEST 2009
Nick Coghlan wrote:
> Antoine Pitrou wrote:
>
>> Brett Cannon <brett <at> python.org> writes:
>>
>>> Now I can't change
>>> co_filename from Python as it's a read-only attribute and thus can't
>>> match this functionality in importlib w/o creating some custom code to
>>> allow me to specify the co_filename somewhere
>>>
>> Why can't we simply make co_filename a writable attribute instead of inventing
>> some complicated API?
>>
>
> I thought of that question as well, but the later exchange between Guido
> and Brett made me realise that a lot more than the top level module code
> object is affected here - the adjustment also needs to be propagated to
> the code objects created by the module for functions and generators and
> so forth.
>
>
Even if it is not necessary or sufficient it still sounds like a useful
change. When writing tools that generate modules or manipulate code
objects these read-only attributes are a great nuisance.
Michael
> Cheers,
> Nick.
>
>
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