On 04/11/2020 01:53, Adrian McCarthy via lldb-dev wrote:
For the past couple weeks, I've been trying to figure out why approximately 900+ LLDB tests have been failing for me on my local Windows builds.  Bisect turned up nothing--the "good" version that was working for me no longer works.  Since nobody else seems to be seeing these failures, I suspect it's something environmental.

There are three categories of errors.  I'm currently focused on failures that look like this:

    FAIL: lldb-api :: lang/objc/unicode-string/TestUnicodeString.py (732
    of 2180)
    ******************** TEST 'lldb-api ::
    lang/objc/unicode-string/TestUnicodeString.py' FAILED
    ********************
    Script:
    --
    C:/Program Files/Python38/python.exe
    D:/src/llvm/llvm-project/lldb\test\API\dotest.py -S nm -u CXXFLAGS
    -u CFLAGS --enable-crash-dialog --env
    LLVM_LIBS_DIR=D:/src/llvm/build/ninja_dbg/./lib --arch x86_64
    --build-dir D:/src/llvm/build/ninja_dbg/lldb-test-build.noindex -s
    D:/src/llvm/build/ninja_dbg/lldb-test-traces --lldb-module-cache-dir
    
D:/src/llvm/build/ninja_dbg/lldb-test-build.noindex/module-cache-lldb\lldb-api
    --clang-module-cache-dir
    
D:/src/llvm/build/ninja_dbg/lldb-test-build.noindex/module-cache-clang\lldb-api
    --executable D:/src/llvm/build/ninja_dbg/./bin/lldb.exe --compiler
    D:/src/llvm/build/ninja_dbg/bin/clang.exe --dsymutil
    D:/src/llvm/build/ninja_dbg/./bin/dsymutil.exe --filecheck
    D:/src/llvm/build/ninja_dbg/./bin/FileCheck.exe --yaml2obj
    D:/src/llvm/build/ninja_dbg/./bin/yaml2obj.exe --lldb-libs-dir
    D:/src/llvm/build/ninja_dbg/./lib
    D:\src\llvm\llvm-project\lldb\test\API\lang\objc\unicode-string -p
    TestUnicodeString.py
    --
    Exit Code: 1

    Command Output (stdout):
    --
    lldb version 12.0.0 (https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project.git
    <https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project.git> revision
    0fdcd1ae1c988fa19d0c97e99999e8678b93a0da)
       clang revision 0fdcd1ae1c988fa19d0c97e99999e8678b93a0da
       llvm revision 0fdcd1ae1c988fa19d0c97e99999e8678b93a0da

    --
    Command Output (stderr):
    --
    Traceback (most recent call last):
       File
    "D:\src\llvm\build\ninja_dbg\Lib\site-packages\lldb\__init__.py",
    line 35, in <module>
         import _lldb
    ModuleNotFoundError: No module named '_lldb'

    During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

    Traceback (most recent call last):
       File "D:/src/llvm/llvm-project/lldb\test\API\dotest.py", line 7,
    in <module>
         lldbsuite.test.run_suite()
       File
    "D:\src\llvm\llvm-project\lldb\packages\Python\lldbsuite\test\dotest.py",
    line 874, in run_suite
         import lldb
       File
    "D:\src\llvm\build\ninja_dbg\Lib\site-packages\lldb\__init__.py",
    line 38, in <module>
         from . import _lldb
    ImportError: cannot import name '_lldb' from partially initialized
    module 'lldb' (most likely due to a circular import)
    (D:\src\llvm\build\ninja_dbg\Lib\site-packages\lldb\__init__.py)


It looks like the code in question is generated by Swig (so perhaps it depends on the version of Swig?).  The relevant bit seems to be:

    try:
         # Try an absolute import first.  If we're being loaded from lldb,
         # _lldb should be a built-in module.
         import _lldb
    except ImportError:
         # Relative import should work if we are being loaded by Python.
    from . import _lldb


I don't have much background in Python modules or how Swig produces the bindings.  It seems suspicious to me that both import attempts are failing (and that we need two).

The reason behind the two imports is that lldb+python have two ways of loading each other, depending on who is "on top".

If you're starting with a c++ program (e.g. lldb driver), then the (lib)lldb library will be loaded first. It will register itself as a "builtin" python module so that "import _lldb" loads _it_, instead of trying to load another copy of lldb.

OTOH, if we are starting from python (like the dotests do), then there is no builtin module, and we want to use the second import statement to load lldb relative to the __init__.py location.

The fact that the selection of the two methods is implemented by catching the exceptions from the first attempt is not ideal. It's possible this could be implemented differently (we'd need to find some other way to determine which scenario are we in). However, I don't think that will fix the problem you're running into.

Regarding python3.8+windows, we also have this <https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46891> bug open, but that also doesn't sound like the same issue.

BTW, this particular piece of code comes from lldb/bindings/python/python.swig, so it is fairly easy to change that.

  I'm hoping someone can offer some clues about what's going on here and how it's supposed to work.  Is the hint about an import cycle relevant or a red herring?

It sounds like a red herring. I get the same error (on linux+python3.8) if I delete _lldb.so. So it sounds to me like python is having trouble finding the native module (either it's not there or it has wrong debug-ness).

It's also good to check whether you are able to use python scripting from inside the lldb driver (e.g. lldb -o "script 1+1").

pl
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