[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 14:52, P.J. Eby<pje at telecommunity.com> wrote:
> At 01:39 PM 8/31/2009 -0700, Brett Cannon wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>
> Why not just try the code I posted earlier, that doesn't need a mutable
> attribute OR an API change?

Ignoring that 'new' is not in Python 3.x (luckily 'types' is), I want
a proper solution that doesn't require reconstructing every code
object that I happen to import.

-Brett