New submission from Tasos Papastylianou <tpapastylia...@hotmail.com>:
Back in python 3.6.9, attempting to import __file__ on a namespace package resulted in an attribute error. From at least 3.8 onwards, this behaviour seems to have changed, and __file__ simply returns None instead. This seems to have broken unittest discovery. Looking at the code, it seems that discover still seems to rely on a try/except block in order to test for a namespace package. Now that the attribute error is no longer present in later python versions, discover simply accepts the None value for __file__, and fails further down the line when attempting to canonicalise a path containing a None value (error effectively expects a string). On my system with python 3.8, the relevant files/lines are: - /usr/lib/python3.8/unittest/loader.py()discover() The try block starting at line 304 checks for the module's __file__ attribute, expecting to redirect to 307 to "look for namespace packages" in case of an attribute error. Obviously, now that __file__ returns None instead, this logic fails. - The call to dirname in line 306 therefore proceeds normally, passing a None as a file, which then fails with a TypeError: expected str, bytes or os.PathLike object, not NoneType See https://github.com/tpapastylianou/self-contained-runnable-python-package-template/issues/13# for the example in the wild that prompted the discovery of this bug. ---------- components: Tests messages: 412505 nosy: tpapastylianou priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: unittest.defaultTestLoader.discover fails for namespace packages type: behavior versions: Python 3.10, Python 3.8, Python 3.9 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue46635> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
