[Python-Dev] how important is setting co_filename for a module being imported to what __file__ is set to?

[Brett Cannon]

On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 12:59, Brett Cannon<brett at python.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 12:27, Antoine Pitrou<solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
>> Brett Cannon <brett <at> python.org> writes:
>>>
>>> I will plan to take this approach then;
>>> http://bugs.python.org/issue6811 will track all of this. Since this is
>>> a 3.2 thing I am not going to rush to implement this.
>>
>> I still don't understand what the point is of this complicated approach (adding
>> an argument to marshal.load()) compared to the simple and obvious approach
>> (making co_filename mutable).
>
> If we add the argument to marshal.load* we can eventually drop the
> file location string from marshal data entirely by requiring people to
> specify the filename to use when the code object is created. Making
> co_filename mutable simply doesn't allow for this case unless we
> decide a default value should be used instead.
>

I should also mention that I am +0 on the marshal.load* change. I
could be convinced to try to pursue a mutable co_filenme direction,
but considering the BDFL likes the marshal.load* approach and it opens
up the possibility of compacting the marshal format I am leaning
towards sticking with this initial direction.

-Brett