[issue40413] Py_RunMain() crashes on subsequence call

2021-10-13 Thread Gregory Szorc


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I can't remember the circumstances of me reproducing this. The added test 
demonstrating that the interpreter can be initialized/finalized within a single 
process seems like a reasonable solution to ensure this is supported.

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[issue45405] configure fails on macOS with non-Apple clang version 13 which implements --print-multiarch

2021-10-13 Thread Gregory Szorc


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> Can you be more specific? This particular issue isn't about cross-compiling.

The point I was trying to make is that clang 13 generically implemented 
--print-multiarch and the triple logic in configure related to MULTIARCH 
applies to all platforms, not just macOS.

I was able to perturb this same error on Linux with an x86_64 Clang 13 with 
configure options --build=x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu 
--host=i686-unknown-linux-gnu. 
https://github.com/indygreg/python-build-standalone/runs/3853832124?check_suite_focus=true
 should work if you are logged into GitHub. Not the exact same failure, but 
related since it involves --print-multiarch suddenly working.

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[issue45405] configure fails on macOS with non-Apple clang version 13 which implements --print-multiarch

2021-10-11 Thread Gregory Szorc


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Note that this issue isn't macOS specific: you will get the same failure when 
cross-compiling targeting Linux. e.g. --build=x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu 
--host=i686-unknown-linux-gnu.

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[issue41994] Refcount issues in import

2021-09-27 Thread Gregory Szorc


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I didn't want to derail this old issue too much. So I filed issue45307 to track 
a solution.

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[issue45307] Removal of _PyImport_FindExtensionObject() in 3.10 limits custom extension module loaders

2021-09-27 Thread Gregory Szorc


New submission from Gregory Szorc :

https://bugs.python.org/issue41994 / commit 
4db8988420e0a122d617df741381b0c385af032c removed 
_PyImport_FindExtensionObject() from the C API and it is no longer available in 
CPython 3.10 after alpha 5.

At least py2exe and PyOxidizer rely on this API for implementing a custom 
module loader for extension modules. Essentially, both want to implement a 
custom Loader.create_module() so they can use a custom mechanism for injecting 
a shared library into the process. While the details shouldn't be important 
beyond "they can't use imp.create_dynamic()," both use a similar technique that 
hooks LoadLibrary() on Windows to enable them to load a DLL from memory (as 
opposed to a file).

While I don't have the extension module loading mechanism fully paged in to my 
head at the moment, I believe the reason that _PyImport_FindExtensionObject() 
(now effectively import_find_extension()) is important for py2exe and 
PyOxidizer is because they need to support at most once initialization, 
including honoring the multi-phase initialization semantics. Since the state of 
extension modules is stored in `static PyObject *extensions` and the thread 
state (which are opaque to the C API), the loss of 
_PyImport_FindExtensionObject() means there is no way to check for and use an 
existing extension module module object from the bowels of the importer 
machinery. And I think this means it isn't possible to implement well-behaved 
alternate extension module loaders any more.

I'm aware the deleted API was "private" and probably shouldn't have been used 
in the first place. And what py2exe and PyOxidizer are doing here is rather 
unorthodox.

In my mind the simplest path forward is restoring 
_PyImport_FindExtensionObject(). But a properly designed public API is probably 
a better solution.

Until 3.10 makes equivalent functionality available or another workaround is 
supported, PyOxidizer won't be able to support loading extension modules from 
memory on Windows on Python 3.10. This is unfortunate. But probably not a deal 
breaker and I can probably go several months shipping PyOxidizer with this 
regression without too many complaints.

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status: open
title: Removal of _PyImport_FindExtensionObject() in 3.10 limits custom 
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[issue41994] Refcount issues in import

2021-09-26 Thread Gregory Szorc


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While testing 3.10.0rc2, I noticed that commit 
4db8988420e0a122d617df741381b0c385af032c removed 
_PyImport_FindExtensionObject() from libpython. This breaks both PyOxidizer and 
py2exe, which rely on this function for a custom implementation of 
Loader.create_module() to enable loading Windows DLLs from memory.

It can probably be worked around. But I wanted to note it here in case it was 
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[issue45020] Freeze all modules imported during startup.

2021-09-22 Thread Gregory Szorc


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I'll throw out that __file__ is strictly optional, per 
https://docs.python.org/3/reference/datamodel.html. IMO it is more important to 
define importlib.abc.InspectLoader than __file__ (so tracebacks have source 
context).

Given that __file__ is optional, I'll throw out the idea of shipping modules 
without __file__/__cached__ and see what issues/pushback occurs. I anticipate 
this will likely result in having to restore advertising __file__ in frozen 
modules in 3.11 due to popular demand. But we /could/ use this as an 
opportunity to start attempting to ween people off __file__ and onto more 
appropriate APIs, like importlib.resources. (importlib.resources was introduced 
in 3.7 and I'm not sure that's old enough to force people onto without relying 
on a shim like https://pypi.org/project/importlib-resources/.)

Alternatively, defining a path hook referencing the python executable that 
knows how to service frozen modules could also work. zipimporter does this 
(__file__ is /) and it is surprisingly not as 
brittle as one would think. It might be a good middle ground.

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[issue44689] ctypes.util.find_library() does not find macOS 11+ system libraries when built on older macOS systems

2021-09-02 Thread Gregory Szorc


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I cannot reproduce this on an 11.5 Intel MacBook Pro using an 11.5 SDK 
targeting x86_64 10.9.

However, I can reproduce on a similarly configured M1 using the same OS and SDK 
but cross-compiling to single arch x86_64.

The issue here may reside in how configure handles cross-compiling for Apple. 
The current logic in configure is a bit opinionated about how things should 
work and this patch may have tickled things into not working.

My opinion is that configure should support various cross-compiling scenarios 
like this (including building non-fat x86_64 only binaries from an arm64 
machine). However, it is clear from the implementation and comments in this 
issue and elsewhere that the CPython core devs want to limit which exact 
cross-compiling configurations are supported on Apple.

If the core developers say various cross-compiling scenarios aren't supported 
build configuration any more, I'll accept that and work around the limitation 
on my end. However, do note there is a significant possibility that Apple stops 
selling Intel machines for various product models in a few weeks. I suspect 
various people will want to continue their practice of building x86_64 only 
binaries for the indefinite future. Regardless of when the ARM only transition 
occurs, arbitrary restrictions like not supporting Apple arm64 -> x86_64 
cross-compiling will disappoint a growing cohort of users over time. I would 
encourage investing in less opinionated configure logic to support Apple 
cross-compiling. I could potentially contribute patches in this area, since 
I've already taught python-build-standalone to cross-compile more robustly 
(including to targets like iOS).

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[issue44689] ctypes.util.find_library() does not find macOS 11+ system libraries when built on older macOS systems

2021-09-01 Thread Gregory Szorc


Gregory Szorc  added the comment:

> On Sep 1, 2021, at 22:58, Ned Deily  wrote:
> 
> I don't think we have ever claimed to support building on an older system 
> with a newer SDK, as in building on 10.15 with an 11 SDK.

My initial report was from a 10.15 Intel machine in GitHub Actions. My comment 
a few hours ago was from an 11.3 M1 cross-compiling to x86_64 and targeting 
10.9 from a 11.X SDK.

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[issue44689] ctypes.util.find_library() does not find macOS 11+ system libraries when built on older macOS systems

2021-09-01 Thread Gregory Szorc


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I spoke too soon: you can reproduce this with CPython's build system and I 
think this is a legit regression.

I think the function sniffing logic is subtly wrong.

Here is the logic as written:

#ifdef __APPLE__
  #ifdef HAVE_DYLD_SHARED_CACHE_CONTAINS_PATH
#define HAVE_DYLD_SHARED_CACHE_CONTAINS_PATH_RUNTIME \
  __builtin_available(macOS 11.0, iOS 14.0, tvOS 14.0, watchOS 7.0, *)
  #else
static bool (*_dyld_shared_cache_contains_path)(const char *path);

  #define HAVE_DYLD_SHARED_CACHE_CONTAINS_PATH_RUNTIME \
  _dyld_shared_cache_contains_path != NULL
  #endif
#endif

The fundamental problem is that HAVE_DYLD_SHARED_CACHE_CONTAINS_PATH comes from 
configure. Configure is using the target settings to probe for function 
presence. If I set the deployment target to 10.9, it says `checking for 
_dyld_shared_cache_contains_path... no`. But if I set the deployment target to 
11.0, it says `checking for _dyld_shared_cache_contains_path... yes`. Because 
we may be targeting a macOS without the function, the function appears as not 
available to configure. It may exist in the SDK, but it is masked behind 
availability checks for the test compile.

The logic as written assumes that !HAVE_DYLD_SHARED_CACHE_CONTAINS_PATH means 
the SDK doesn't contain the function at all. This just isn't true for SDKs >= 
11.0.

If you look at posixmodule.c, the logic for checking for function availability 
is typically this pattern:

#ifdef __APPLE__
  #ifdef HAVE_BUILTIN_AVAILABLE
#define HAVE_DYLD_SHARED_CACHE_CONTAINS_PATH_RUNTIME \
  __builtin_available(macOS 11.0, iOS 14.0, tvOS 14.0, watchOS 7.0, *)
  #else
#ifdef HAVE_DYLD_SHARED_CACHE_CONTAINS_PATH 
  #define HAVE_DYLD_SHARED_CACHE_CONTAINS_PATH_RUNTIME 
(_dyld_shared_cache_contains_path != NULL)
#endif
  #endif
#endif

This other pattern also reveals another regression with this patch: 
__builtin_available() may not be available on older compilers. See issue42692. 
I'm unsure what "older compilers" actually is. But someone is bound to complain 
about this (if they haven't already).

Do these build regressions warrant an unplanned 3.9.8 release?

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[issue44689] ctypes.util.find_library() does not find macOS 11+ system libraries when built on older macOS systems

2021-09-01 Thread Gregory Szorc


Gregory Szorc  added the comment:

Oh, this might be my custom Modules file not passing the 
HAVE_DYLD_SHARED_CACHE_CONTAINS_PATH define properly. I suspect I was working 
around this bug before by disabling the dyld bits. Sorry for the noise! (I 
should have reproduced with CPython's build system.)

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[issue44689] ctypes.util.find_library() does not find macOS 11+ system libraries when built on older macOS systems

2021-08-31 Thread Gregory Szorc


Gregory Szorc  added the comment:

I think patch broke building on macOS < 11 when building with a 11.0+ SDK and 
targeting macOS < 11? This build configuration previously used to work with 
3.9.6.

clang -Wno-unused-result -Wsign-compare -g -O0 -Wall -arch x86_64 
-mmacosx-version-min=10.9 -Wno-nullability-completeness 
-Wno-expansion-to-defined -Wno-undef-prefix -isysroot 
/Applications/Xcode_12.4.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX11.1.sdk
 -fPIC 
-I/var/folders/24/8k48jl6d249_n_qfxwsl6xvmgn/T/tmpkfji88v7/tools/deps/include
 
-I/var/folders/24/8k48jl6d249_n_qfxwsl6xvmgn/T/tmpkfji88v7/tools/deps/include/ncursesw
 
-I/var/folders/24/8k48jl6d249_n_qfxwsl6xvmgn/T/tmpkfji88v7/tools/deps/include/uuid
 -Werror=unguarded-availability-new   -std=c99 -Wextra -Wno-unused-result 
-Wno-unused-parameter -Wno-missing-field-initializers -Wstrict-prototypes 
-Werror=implicit-function-declaration -fvisibility=hidden  -I./Include/internal 
 -I. -I./Include -arch x86_64 -mmacosx-version-min=10.9 
-Wno-nullability-completeness -Wno-expansion-to-defined -Wno-undef-prefix 
-isysroot 
/Applications/Xcode_12.4.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/S
 DKs/MacOSX11.1.sdk -fPIC 
-I/var/folders/24/8k48jl6d249_n_qfxwsl6xvmgn/T/tmpkfji88v7/tools/deps/include
 
-I/var/folders/24/8k48jl6d249_n_qfxwsl6xvmgn/T/tmpkfji88v7/tools/deps/include/ncursesw
 
-I/var/folders/24/8k48jl6d249_n_qfxwsl6xvmgn/T/tmpkfji88v7/tools/deps/include/uuid
 -Werror=unguarded-availability-new   -DMACOSX -DUSING_MALLOC_CLOSURE_DOT_C=1 
-DHAVE_FFI_PREP_CIF_VAR=1 -DHAVE_FFI_PREP_CLOSURE_LOC=1 
-DHAVE_FFI_CLOSURE_ALLOC=1 -DPy_BUILD_CORE_BUILTIN  -I_ctypes/darwin -c 
./Modules/_ctypes/callproc.c -o Modules/callproc.o
python-3.9> ./Modules/_ctypes/callproc.c:1459:15: error: redefinition of 
'_dyld_shared_cache_contains_path' as different kind of symbol
cpython-3.9> static bool (*_dyld_shared_cache_contains_path)(const char *path);
cpython-3.9>   ^
cpython-3.9> 
/Applications/Xcode_12.4.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX11.1.sdk/usr/include/mach-o/dyld.h:121:13:
 note: previous definition is here
cpython-3.9> extern bool _dyld_shared_cache_contains_path(const char* path) 
  __API_AVAILABLE(macos(11.0), ios(14.0), watchos(7.0), tvos(14.0)) 
DYLD_DRIVERKIT_UNAVAILABLE;
cpython-3.9> ^
cpython-3.9> ./Modules/_ctypes/callproc.c:1464:42: error: non-object type 'bool 
(const char *)' is not assignable
cpython-3.9> _dyld_shared_cache_contains_path = 
dlsym(libsystem_b_handle, "_dyld_shared_cache_contains_path");
cpython-3.9>  ^
cpython-3.9> ./Modules/_ctypes/callproc.c:1464:9: error: 
'_dyld_shared_cache_contains_path' is only available on macOS 11.0 or newer 
[-Werror,-Wunguarded-availability-new]
cpython-3.9> _dyld_shared_cache_contains_path = 
dlsym(libsystem_b_handle, "_dyld_shared_cache_contains_path");
cpython-3.9> ^~~~
cpython-3.9> 
/Applications/Xcode_12.4.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX11.1.sdk/usr/include/mach-o/dyld.h:121:13:
 note: '_dyld_shared_cache_contains_path' has been marked as being introduced 
in macOS 11.0 here, but the deployment target is macOS 10.9.0
cpython-3.9> extern bool _dyld_shared_cache_contains_path(const char* path) 
  __API_AVAILABLE(macos(11.0), ios(14.0), watchos(7.0), tvos(14.0)) 
DYLD_DRIVERKIT_UNAVAILABLE;
cpython-3.9> ^
cpython-3.9> ./Modules/_ctypes/callproc.c:1464:9: note: enclose 
'_dyld_shared_cache_contains_path' in a __builtin_available check to silence 
this warning
cpython-3.9> _dyld_shared_cache_contains_path = 
dlsym(libsystem_b_handle, "_dyld_shared_cache_contains_path");
cpython-3.9> ^~~~
cpython-3.9> ./Modules/_ctypes/callproc.c:1482:10: error: 
'_dyld_shared_cache_contains_path' is only available on macOS 11.0 or newer 
[-Werror,-Wunguarded-availability-new]
cpython-3.9>  if (HAVE_DYLD_SHARED_CACHE_CONTAINS_PATH_RUNTIME) {
cpython-3.9>  ^~~~
cpython-3.9> ./Modules/_ctypes/callproc.c:1474:5: note: expanded from macro 
'HAVE_DYLD_SHARED_CACHE_CONTAINS_PATH_RUNTIME'
cpython-3.9> _dyld_shared_cache_contains_path != NULL
cpython-3.9> ^~~~
cpython-3.9> 
/Applications/Xcode_12.4.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX11.1.sdk/usr/include/mach-o/dyld.h:121:13:
 note: '_dyld_shared_cache_contains_path' has been marked as being introduced 
in macOS 11.0 here, but the deployment target is macOS 10.9.0
cpython-3.9> extern bool _dyld_shared_cache_contains_path(const char* path

[issue45020] Freeze all modules imported during startup.

2021-08-30 Thread Gregory Szorc


Gregory Szorc  added the comment:

> For stdlib modules it wouldn't be a big problem to set __file__ on
> frozen modules.
> Would that be enough to solve the problem?

What do you set __file__ to? Do you still materialize the .py[c] files on disk 
and set to that? (This would make the most sense.) If you support setting 
__file__ on a frozen module, how does this work at the C level? A stdlib module 
would want a different __file__ from a 3rd party module using the frozen module 
API. This would seemingly require enhancements to the frozen modules C API or 
some kind of hackery only available to stdlib frozen modules.

>> When I investigated freezing the standard library for PyOxidizer, I ran into 
>> a rash
>> of problems. The frozen importer doesn't behave like PathFinder. It doesn't
>> (didn't?) set some common module-level attributes
> This is mostly fixable for stdlib modules.  Which attributes would
> need to be added?  Are there other missing behaviors?

It was a few years ago and I can't recall specifics. I just remember that after 
encountering a couple unrelated limitations with the frozen importer I decided 
it was far too primitive to work as a general importer and decided I'd have to 
roll my own.

> Good point.  Supporting more of the FileLoader API on the frozen
> loader is something to look into, at least for stdlib modules.

>> I agree that we should shore up the frozen importer -- probably in a 
>> separate PR though.
>> (@Eric: do you think this is worth its own bpo issue?)
> Yeah.

I have some observations about the implications of this. I typed up a long 
comment but then realized someone would probably complain about me distracting 
from the technical parts of this issue. Which forum is most appropriate for 
this less technical commentary? (I want to lay out the case for building out an 
official importer far more advanced than frozen importer.)

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[issue45025] Reliance on C bit fields in C API is undefined behavior

2021-08-30 Thread Gregory Szorc


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My use case for these low-level APIs is to write tests for low-level 
string/encoding handling in my custom use of the PyPreConfig and PyConfig 
structs. I wanted to verify that exact byte sequences were turned into specific 
representations inside of Python strings. This includes ensuring that certain 
byte sequences retain their appropriate "character" width in internal storage.

I know there are alternative ways of performing this testing. But testing 
against the actual data structure used internally by CPython seemed the most 
precise since it isolates problems to the "store in Python" side of the problem 
and not "what does Python do once the data is stored."

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[issue45020] Freeze all modules imported during startup.

2021-08-28 Thread Gregory Szorc


Gregory Szorc  added the comment:

Oh, PyOxidizer also ran into more general issues with the frozen importer in 
that it broke various importlib APIs. e.g. because the frozen importer only 
supports bytecode, you can't use .__loader__.get_source() to obtain the source 
of a module. This makes tracebacks more opaque and breaks legitimate API 
consumers relying on these importlib interfaces.

The fundamental limitations with the frozen importer are why I implemented my 
own meta path importer (implemented in pure Rust), which is more fully 
featured, like the PathFinder importer that most people rely on today. That 
importer is available on PyPI (https://pypi.org/project/oxidized-importer/) and 
has its own API to facilitate PyOxidizer-like functionality 
(https://pyoxidizer.readthedocs.io/en/stable/oxidized_importer.html) if anyone 
wants to experiment with it.

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[issue45020] Freeze all modules imported during startup.

2021-08-28 Thread Gregory Szorc


Gregory Szorc  added the comment:

When I investigated freezing the standard library for PyOxidizer, I ran into a 
rash of problems. The frozen importer doesn't behave like PathFinder. It 
doesn't (didn't?) set some common module-level attributes that are documented 
by the importer "specification" to be set and this failed a handful of tests 
and lead to runtime issues or breakage in 3rd party packages (such as random 
packages looking for a __file__ on a common stdlib module).

Also, when I last looked at the CPython source, the frozen importer performed a 
linear scan of its indexed C array performing strcmp() on each entry until it 
found what it was looking for. So adding hundreds of modules could result in 
sufficient overhead and justify using a more efficient lookup algorithm. 
(PyOxidizer uses Rust's HashMap to index modules by name.)

I fully support more aggressive usage of frozen modules in the standard library 
to speed up interpreter startup. However, if you want to ship this as enabled 
by default, from my experience with PyOxidizer, I highly recommend:

* Make sure you run unit tests against the frozen modules. If you don't do 
this, subtle differences in how the different importers behave will lead to 
problems.
* Shoring up the implementation of the frozen importer to make it better 
conform with the importer specification.
* Be prepared for people to complain about the loss of __file__. e.g. 
https://github.com/indygreg/PyOxidizer/issues/69 / 
https://pyoxidizer.readthedocs.io/en/stable/oxidized_importer_behavior_and_compliance.html?highlight=__file__#file-and-cached-module-attributes

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[issue45025] Reliance on C bit fields in C API is undefined behavior

2021-08-26 Thread Gregory Szorc


Change by Gregory Szorc :


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bit fields in C API is undefined behavior

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[issue45025] Reliance on C bit fields is C API is undefined behavior

2021-08-26 Thread Gregory Szorc


New submission from Gregory Szorc :

At least the PyASCIIObject struct in Include/cpython/unicodeobject.h uses bit 
fields. Various preprocessor macros like PyUnicode_IS_ASCII() and 
PyUnicode_KIND() access this struct's bit field.

This is problematic because according to the C specification, the storage of 
bit fields is unspecified and may vary from compiler to compiler or 
architecture to architecture. Theoretically, a build of libpython with compiler 
A may not have the same storage layout of a bit field as a separate binary 
built with compiler B. These 2 binaries could be linked/loaded together, 
resulting in a crash or incorrect behavior at run-time.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6043483/why-bit-endianness-is-an-issue-in-bitfields/6044223#6044223

To ensure bit field behavior is consistent, the same compiler must be used for 
all bit field interaction. Since it is effectively impossible to ensure this 
for programs like Python where multiple compilers are commonly at play (a 3rd 
party C extension will likely not be built on the same machine that built 
libpython), bit fields must not be exposed in the C API. If a bit field must 
exist, the bit field should not be declared in a public .h header and any APIs 
for accessing the bit field must be implemented as compiled functions such that 
only a single compiler will define the bit field storage layout.

In order to avoid undefined behavior, Python's C API should avoid all use of 
bit fields.

This issue is in response to https://github.com/PyO3/pyo3/issues/1824.

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[issue41949] Redefinition of HMAC functions prevents static linking

2021-07-17 Thread Gregory Szorc


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I think this was effectively fixed in 3.10 via commit 
39258d3595300bc7b952854c915f63ae2d4b9c3e / bpo-43669, which removed code 
creating the duplicate symbols. It is still a problem in 3.9. But possibly not 
worth the backport.

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[issue41100] Support macOS 11 and Apple Silicon Macs

2021-02-22 Thread Gregory Szorc


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I ran into a minor issue with the ctypes extension and the 
_dyld_shared_cache_contains_path dependency that was added as part of this work 
(commit e8b1c038b14b5fc8120aab62c9bf5fb840274cb6).

When building on Intel macOS 10.15 using an 11.x SDK, the configure check for 
this symbol passes (#define HAVE_DYLD_SHARED_CACHE_CONTAINS_PATH 1) and the 
extension compiles (albeit with a lot of deprecation warnings spewing from the 
Apple SDK headers). However, at run-time, we blow up due to a missing symbol 
error:

```
2021-02-21T21:57:21.4116370Z cpython-3.9> clang -bundle -undefined 
dynamic_lookup -isysroot 
/Applications/Xcode_12.4.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX11.1.sdk
 
build/temp.macosx-11.0-x86_64-3.9/private/var/folders/24/8k48jl6d249_n_qfxwsl6xvmgn/T/tmpasb48bzk/Python-3.9.2/Modules/_decimal/_decimal.o
 
build/temp.macosx-11.0-x86_64-3.9/private/var/folders/24/8k48jl6d249_n_qfxwsl6xvmgn/T/tmpasb48bzk/Python-3.9.2/Modules/_decimal/libmpdec/basearith.o
 
build/temp.macosx-11.0-x86_64-3.9/private/var/folders/24/8k48jl6d249_n_qfxwsl6xvmgn/T/tmpasb48bzk/Python-3.9.2/Modules/_decimal/libmpdec/constants.o
 
build/temp.macosx-11.0-x86_64-3.9/private/var/folders/24/8k48jl6d249_n_qfxwsl6xvmgn/T/tmpasb48bzk/Python-3.9.2/Modules/_decimal/libmpdec/context.o
 
build/temp.macosx-11.0-x86_64-3.9/private/var/folders/24/8k48jl6d249_n_qfxwsl6xvmgn/T/tmpasb48bzk/Python-3.9.2/Modules/_decimal/libmpdec/convolute.o
 build/temp.macosx-11.0-x86_64-3.9/private/var/fol
 
ders/24/8k48jl6d249_n_qfxwsl6xvmgn/T/tmpasb48bzk/Python-3.9.2/Modules/_decimal/libmpdec/crt.o
 
build/temp.macosx-11.0-x86_64-3.9/private/var/folders/24/8k48jl6d249_n_qfxwsl6xvmgn/T/tmpasb48bzk/Python-3.9.2/Modules/_decimal/libmpdec/difradix2.o
 
build/temp.macosx-11.0-x86_64-3.9/private/var/folders/24/8k48jl6d249_n_qfxwsl6xvmgn/T/tmpasb48bzk/Python-3.9.2/Modules/_decimal/libmpdec/fnt.o
 
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build/temp.macosx-11.0-x86_64-3.9/private/var/folders/24/8k48jl6d249_n_qfxwsl6xvmgn/T/tmpasb48bzk/Python-3.9.2/Modules/_decimal/libmpdec/io.o
 
build/temp.macosx-11.0-x86_64-3.9/private/var/folders/24/8k48jl6d249_n_qfxwsl6xvmgn/T/tmpasb48bzk/Python-3.9.2/Modules/_decimal/libmpdec/mpalloc.o
 
build/temp.macosx-11.0-x86_64-3.9/private/var/folders/24/8k48jl6d249_n_qfxwsl6xvmgn/T/tmpasb48bzk/Python-3.9.2/Modules/_decimal/libmpdec/mpdecimal
 .o 
build/temp.macosx-11.0-x86_64-3.9/private/var/folders/24/8k48jl6d249_n_qfxwsl6xvmgn/T/tmpasb48bzk/Python-3.9.2/Modules/_decimal/libmpdec/numbertheory.o
 
build/temp.macosx-11.0-x86_64-3.9/private/var/folders/24/8k48jl6d249_n_qfxwsl6xvmgn/T/tmpasb48bzk/Python-3.9.2/Modules/_decimal/libmpdec/sixstep.o
 
build/temp.macosx-11.0-x86_64-3.9/private/var/folders/24/8k48jl6d249_n_qfxwsl6xvmgn/T/tmpasb48bzk/Python-3.9.2/Modules/_decimal/libmpdec/transpose.o
 
-L/var/folders/24/8k48jl6d249_n_qfxwsl6xvmgn/T/tmpasb48bzk/tools/pyhost/lib 
-L/usr/local/lib -lm -o 
build/lib.macosx-11.0-x86_64-3.9/_decimal.cpython-39-darwin.so
2021-02-21T21:57:27.1635100Z cpython-3.9> *** WARNING: renaming "_ctypes" since 
importing it failed: 
dlopen(build/lib.macosx-11.0-x86_64-3.9/_ctypes.cpython-39-darwin.so, 2): 
Symbol not found: __dyld_shared_cache_contains_path
2021-02-21T21:57:27.1637220Z cpython-3.9>   Referenced from: 
build/lib.macosx-11.0-x86_64-3.9/_ctypes.cpython-39-darwin.so (which was built 
for Mac OS X 11.0)
2021-02-21T21:57:27.1638560Z cpython-3.9>   Expected in: 
/usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib
2021-02-21T21:57:27.1639770Z cpython-3.9>  in 
build/lib.macosx-11.0-x86_64-3.9/_ctypes.cpython-39-darwin.so
```

(This build output is from 
https://github.com/indygreg/python-build-standalone/runs/1947611547?check_suite_focus=true)

The missing symbol is provided by libdyld.dylib, which doesn't appear to be 
linked directly by CPython's build system.

I'm only able to reproduce this on a GitHub Actions 10.5 machine using the 11.1 
SDK: it seems to work fine on both an 11.1 Intel and M1 device.

I reckon the correct fix is to have _ctypes link libdyld is this build 
configuration. I was also able to work around it in python-build-standalone by 
unsetting HAVE_DYLD_SHARED_CACHE_CONTAINS_PATH (hacky solution but this feature 
isn't needed by the build that was failing). And of course linking a non-Apple 
libffi should also work, which is potentially why pyenv/Homebrew/etc users 
aren't noticing.

python-build-standalone uses its own Clang built from source, so it is entirely 
possible there's something differing between the Apple Clang and my Clang 
causing this to fail. However, at least 1 other person ran into this in the 
wild 
(https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65853539/symbol-not-found-dyld-shared-cache-contains-pa

[issue42564] "from .__init__ import ..." syntax imports a duplicate module

2020-12-07 Thread Gregory Szorc


Gregory Szorc  added the comment:

Who uses this syntax? 
https://github.com/search?l=Python&q=%22from+.__init__+import%22&type=Code says 
a lot of random code, surprisingly/sadly.

As for python-ideas, thanks for the suggestion: I may very well craft an email!

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[issue42564] "from .__init__ import ..." syntax imports a duplicate module

2020-12-04 Thread Gregory Szorc


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I worked around this in PyOxidizer by stripping a trailing `.__init__` from 
module names when resolving the indexed resource data. This allows the import 
to work since it can find the data now, but it also preserves the double module 
object, which isn't ideal IMO.

My preferred solution would be to either ban `__init__` in module name 
components or strip trailing `.__init__` from the name in `find_spec()`, 
effectively normalizing it away. Either of these would be backwards 
incompatible. Could either of these be considered for 3.10?

It's worth noting that `__init__` could potentially occur in the interior of 
the module name. e.g. `foo.__init__.bar`. This would require filenames like 
`foo/__init__/bar.py`. I wouldn't be surprised if this exists somewhere in the 
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[issue42564] "from .__init__ import ..." syntax imports a duplicate module

2020-12-03 Thread Gregory Szorc


New submission from Gregory Szorc :

(Rereporting from https://github.com/indygreg/PyOxidizer/issues/317.)

$ mkdir foo
$ cat > foo/__init__.py < test = True
> EOF
$ cat > foo/bar.py < from .__init__ import test
> EOF
$ python3.9
Python 3.9.0 (default, Nov  1 2020, 22:40:00)
[GCC 10.2.0] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import foo.bar
>>> import sys
>>> sys.modules['foo']

>>> sys.modules['foo.__init__']


I am surprised that `from .__init__` even works, as `__init__` isn't a valid 
module name.

What appears to be happening is the path based importer doesn't recognize the 
`__init__` as special and it falls back to its regular file probing technique 
to locate a module derive from the path. It finds the `__init__.py[c]` file and 
imports it.

A consequence of this is that the explicit `__init__` import/module exists as a 
separate module object under `sys.modules`. So you can effectively have the 
same file imported as 2 module objects living under 2 names. This could of 
course result in subtle software bugs, like module-level variables not updating 
when you expect them to. (This could also be a feature for code relying on this 
behavior, of course.)

I only attempted to reproduce with 3.9. But this behavior has likely existed 
for years.

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[issue41949] Redefinition of HMAC functions prevents static linking

2020-10-05 Thread Gregory Szorc


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My workaround was to remove `|| defined(LIBRESSL_VERSION_NUMBER)`. That works 
with LibreSSL 3.1.4. I'm unsure if the symbols were introduced in a specific 
version though. But since python-build-standalone pins all dependencies, this 
is a safe patch for me.

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[issue41949] Redefinition of HMAC functions prevents static linking

2020-10-05 Thread Gregory Szorc


Gregory Szorc  added the comment:

I was going to work around this in python-build-standalone 
(https://github.com/indygreg/python-build-standalone) by reverting to OpenSSL 
for builds. But we must use LibreSSL when linking against musl libc due to some 
random weirdness getting OpenSSL to statically link against musl.

So I'm going to have to work around this via a source patch in 
python-build-standalone. Not the first time I've had to patch CPython source 
code to get a working statically linked build working.

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[issue41949] Redefinition of HMAC functions prevents static linking

2020-10-05 Thread Gregory Szorc


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[issue41949] Redefinition of HMAC functions prevents static linking

2020-10-05 Thread Gregory Szorc


Change by Gregory Szorc :


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[issue41949] Redefinition of HMAC functions prevents static linking

2020-10-05 Thread Gregory Szorc


New submission from Gregory Szorc :

Commit 54f2898fe7e4ca1f239e96284af3cc5b34d2ae02 (bpo-40645) introduced the 
functions HMAC_CTX_new, HMAC_CTX_free, and HMAC_CTX_get_md.

These functions share the same names as HMAC functions provided by 
OpenSSL/LibreSSL. If you attempt to statically link the _hashlib extension as a 
builtin extension module that is also statically linked against a libcrytpo 
that provides these functions, the linker may complain about duplicate symbols:

cpython-3.9> /tools/host/bin/ld: 
/tools/deps/lib/libcrypto.a(libcrypto_la-hmac.o): in function `HMAC_CTX_free':
cpython-3.9> hmac.c:(.text+0x7d0): multiple definition of `HMAC_CTX_free';
cpython-3.9> 
Modules/_hashopenssl.o:/build/Python-3.9.0/./Modules/_hashopenssl.c:54: first 
defined here
cpython-3.9> /tools/host/bin/ld: 
/tools/deps/lib/libcrypto.a(libcrypto_la-hmac.o): in function `HMAC_CTX_get_md':
cpython-3.9> hmac.c:(.text+0xa20): multiple definition of `HMAC_CTX_get_md'; 
Modules/_hashopenssl.o:/build/Python-3.9.0/./Modules/_hashopenssl.c:
 63: first defined here
cpython-3.9> /tools/host/bin/ld: 
/tools/deps/lib/libcrypto.a(libcrypto_la-hmac.o): in function `HMAC_CTX_new':
cpython-3.9> hmac.c:(.text+0x780): multiple definition of `HMAC_CTX_new'; 
Modules/_hashopenssl.o:/build/Python-3.9.0/./Modules/_hashopenssl.c:42: 
 first defined here
cpython-3.9> clang-10: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to 
see invocation)
cpython-3.9> ln: failed to access 'libpython3.9.so.1.0': No such file or 
directory
cpython-3.9> make: *** [libpython3.9.so] Error 1
cpython-3.9> Makefile:656: recipe for target 'libpython3.9.so' failed

This log from a build attempting to statically link against LibreSSL 3.1.4. The 
issue does not reproduce against OpenSSL 1.1.1h for some reason.

While statically linking _hashlib as a built-in extension module and statically 
linking libcrypto isn't in the default configuration, I believe this use case 
should be supported.

Perhaps these 3 functions should be renamed to not conflict with symbols 
provided by libcrypto?

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[issue41669] Case mismatch between "include" and "Include"

2020-08-30 Thread Gregory Szorc


New submission from Gregory Szorc :

On Windows, `sysconfig.get_path('include')` returns `Include` (capital I).

However, the actual installation path is `include` (lowercase i).

I believe the reason for the case mismatch is in this code in PC/layout/main.py:

```
if ns.include_dev:

for dest, src in rglob(ns.source / "Include", "**/*.h"):
yield "include/{}".format(dest), src
src = ns.source / "PC" / "pyconfig.h"
yield "include/pyconfig.h", src
```

The case mismatch is relevant for case sensitive filesystems. In my case, I was 
extracting a Windows Python install on Linux and then using the `sysconfig` 
value to locate directories within that install. Due to the case mismatch, 
Linux says `Include` doesn't exist since `sysconfig` points to "include."

Case only renames can be a bit wonky to perform. I would suggest preserving 
what is shipped today and changing `sysconfig` to advertise lowercase 
"include." However, this would create a mismatch between the cpython source 
repo and built distributions. So maybe attempting the case-only rename is 
doable.

Note that Windows will not allow you to have a file/directory varying only in 
case. i.e. you can have both an "include" and "Include." I can't recall if you 
can perform a case-only rename with a single system call (meaning it is atomic) 
or whether you need to go through a temporary directory.

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priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Case mismatch between "include" and "Include"
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[issue32030] PEP 432: Rewrite Py_Main()

2020-05-04 Thread Gregory Szorc


Change by Gregory Szorc :


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[issue40415] _asyncio extensions crashes if initialized multiple times in same process

2020-04-27 Thread Gregory Szorc


Gregory Szorc  added the comment:

Oh, I just went to patch this and it is a dupe of 40294, which has already been 
fixed and backported.

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[issue40415] _asyncio extensions crashes if initialized multiple times in same process

2020-04-27 Thread Gregory Szorc


Change by Gregory Szorc :


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[issue40415] _asyncio extensions crashes if initialized multiple times in same process

2020-04-27 Thread Gregory Szorc


New submission from Gregory Szorc :

Most of CPython's extensions can be initialized and freed multiple times in the 
same process. However, _asyncio crashes on at least CPython 3.8.2 when this is 
done.

STR:

1. Create a new Python interpreter
2. Have it import _asyncio
3. Finalize that interpreter.
4. Create a new Python interpreter
5. Have it import _asyncio

There are probably STR in pure Python by forcing _imp.create_dynamic() to run 
multiple times after the module is unloaded.

The crash occurs due to unchecked NULL access in `Py_INCREF(all_tasks);` in 
`PyInit__asyncio()`.

I think the underlying problem is module_init() is short-circuiting because 
`module_initialized` is set. And `module_initialized` is set on subsequent 
module loads because `module_free()` isn't clearing it.

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[issue40413] Py_RunMain() crashes on subsequence call

2020-04-27 Thread Gregory Szorc


Gregory Szorc  added the comment:

Actually, I can reproduce the crash without Py_RunMain(). So I don't think the 
crash is related to the additional cleanup that Py_RunMain() does in addition 
to Py_FinalizeEx().

But I'd like to keep this issue open to track the original question about 
expected behavior.

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[issue40413] Py_RunMain() crashes on subsequence call

2020-04-27 Thread Gregory Szorc


New submission from Gregory Szorc :

I'm attempting to perform the following actions multiple times in a single 
process with CPython 3.8.2:

1) Initialize an interpreter using the PEP-587 APIs.
2) Call Py_RunMain() (which finalizes the interpreter).

However, I've encountered at least 2 crashes due to use-after-free or unchecked 
NULL access (due to apparent state getting funky).

Are multiple interpreters / Py_RunMain() calls in a single process supported? 
Should I file bugs for all of the crashes I encounter?

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[issue40412] inittab_copy not set to NULL after free, can lead to crashes when running multiple interpreters in a single process

2020-04-27 Thread Gregory Szorc


Change by Gregory Szorc :


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pull_request: https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/19746

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[issue40412] inittab_copy not set to NULL after free, can lead to crashes when running multiple interpreters in a single process

2020-04-27 Thread Gregory Szorc


New submission from Gregory Szorc :

Filing a bug to placate the requirement that pull requests have issues.

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title: inittab_copy not set to NULL after free, can lead to crashes when 
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type: crash
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[issue40333] Request for multi-phase initialization API to run code after importlib init

2020-04-25 Thread Gregory Szorc


Gregory Szorc  added the comment:

Having approached this with a fresh brain, I was able to port PyOxidizer to use 
the multi-phase initialization API with minimal regressions!

The relevant code exists at 
https://github.com/indygreg/PyOxidizer/blob/b5aa2b3a96dbd01e9d78857e124f1052f42f86c6/pyembed/src/interpreter.rs#L550.

Here's the sequence:

1) Initialize core
2) Import our custom built-in extension module
3) Run some more code to initialize our extension module (update sys.meta_path, 
etc)
4) Initialize main
5) Remove PathFinder if filesystem imports are disabled

#5 isn't ideal: I would prefer an API to disable the registration of that 
importer completely. But PyOxidizer's importer is first on sys.meta_path and 
PathFinder shouldn't come into play. So it should be mostly harmless.

A super minor paper cut is the lack of a PyConfig_SetBytesString() variant for 
PyWideStringList_Append(). It was slightly annoying having to convert a POSIX 
char* path to a wchar_t* since paths on POSIX are bytes.

Another potential area for improvement is around error handling before main is 
initialized. I'd like to represent PyErr raised during initialization as a Rust 
String, as PyErr isn't appropriate since there isn't a fully initialized Python 
interpreter. However, I discovered that serializing PyErr to strings is a bit 
brittle before main is initialized. e.g. 
https://docs.python.org/3/faq/extending.html#id11 says to use PyErr_Print() and 
replace sys.stdout. But sys.stdout isn't initialized yet and I'm scared to 
touch it. It also appears various functions in traceback rely on facilities 
from an initialized interpreter (such as finding sources). It would be useful 
if there were some kind of PyErr API that returned a PyString (or PyStatus) and 
was guaranteed to work before main is initialized.

Overall, the new code in PyOxidizer is much, much cleaner! Thanks again for the 
new API!

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[issue40333] Request for multi-phase initialization API to run code after importlib init

2020-04-19 Thread Gregory Szorc


New submission from Gregory Szorc :

I'm porting PyOxidizer to the PEP 587 APIs. So far, it is mostly 
straightforward.

I was looking forward to adopting the multi-phase initialization API because I 
thought it would enable me to get rid of the very ugly hack PyOxidizer uses to 
inject its custom meta path importer. This hack is described in gory detail at 
https://docs.rs/pyembed/0.7.0/pyembed/technotes/index.html#our-importing-mechanism
 and the tl;dr is we use a modified version of the 
`importlib._bootstrap_external` module to configure a builtin extension module 
on sys.meta_path so it can handle all imports during initialization.

The good news is the multi-phase initialization API gives us an injection point 
between "core" and "main." I _think_ I would be able to import the built-in 
extension here and register it on sys.meta_path.

However, the new multi-phase initialization API doesn't give us the total 
control that we need. Specifically, PyOxidizer's importer is leveraging a few 
functions in importlib._bootstrap_external as part of its operation. So it 
needs this module to be available before it can be loaded and installed on 
sys.meta_path. It also wants total control over sys.meta_path. So we don't want 
importlib._bootstrap_external to be mucking with sys.meta_path and imports 
being performed before PyOxidizer has a chance to readjust state.

The critical feature that PyOxidizer needs is the ability to muck with 
sys.meta_path and importlib *after* importlib externals are initialized and 
*before* any non-builtin, non-frozen import is attempted. In the current state 
of the initialization code, we need to run custom code between 
init_importlib_external() and when the first non-builtin, non-frozen import is 
attempted (currently during _PyUnicode_InitEncodings()).

Would it be possible to get a multi-phase initialization API that stops after 
init_importlib_external()?

If not, could we break up PyConfig._install_importlib into 2 pieces to allow 
disabling of just importlib._bootstrap_external and provide a supported 
mechanism to initialize the external mechanism between "core" and "main" 
initialization? (Although I'm not sure if this is possible, since "main" 
finishes initializing aspects of "sys" before init_importlib_external() and I'm 
not sure if it is safe to initialize importlib externals before this is done. 
I'm guessing there is a reason that code runs before importlib is fully 
initialized.)

I suppose I could change PyOxidizer's functionality a bit to work around the 
lack of an importlib._bootstrap_external module between "core" and "main" 
initialization. I'm pretty sure I could make this work. But my strong 
preference is to inject code after importlib external support is fully 
initialized but before any imports are performed with it.

Overall the PEP 587 APIs are terrific and a substantial improvement over what 
came before. Thank you for all your work on this feature, Victor!

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[issue40333] Request for multi-phase initialization API to run code after importlib init

2020-04-19 Thread Gregory Szorc


Change by Gregory Szorc :


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[issue40293] cpython-source-deps project missing release for libffi commits

2020-04-15 Thread Gregory Szorc


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I don't like utilizing the dynamic archive links like 
https://github.com/python/cpython-source-deps/archive/libffi.zip (even if you 
pin the commit) because GitHub does not guarantee the file content is 
deterministic over time. I perform SHA-256 validation of all dependencies I 
download from the Internet. And if I rely on the /archive/ URLs, all it takes 
is GitHub updating some library that subtly changes the tar/zip structure and 
my hashes are invalidated.

Release artifacts are immutable and don't have this problem.

As it stands, I will likely `git clone` and check out the commit I need. 
Although I would prefer a release artifact.

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[issue40293] cpython-source-deps project missing release for libffi commits

2020-04-15 Thread Gregory Szorc


New submission from Gregory Szorc :

The https://github.com/python/cpython-source-deps project is missing a source 
archive release for commits to libffi needed to support building on Windows.

The latest release of libffi is version libffi-3.3.0-rc0-r1, which corresponds 
to 
https://github.com/python/cpython-source-deps/commit/8ba2b2c38744420a235e3e7f419cce2591aaf331.

There have been a few commits since that release: 
https://github.com/python/cpython-source-deps/compare/8ba2b2c38744420a235e3e7f419cce2591aaf331...libffi

Most notable is 
https://github.com/python/cpython-source-deps/commit/ed22026f39b37f892ded95d7b30e77dfb5126334
 because without this commit, the source is not buildable on Windows using 
MSVC, at least not with the  prepare_ffi.bat script in CPython's Git 
repository. (Build fails due to issues with FFI_BUILDING_DLL).

Would it be possible to cut a new tag and upload a source tarball for libffi?

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[issue36128] ResourceReader for FileLoader inconsistently handles path separators

2019-11-11 Thread Gregory Szorc


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I just noticed that there is a parallel discussion ongoing in 
https://gitlab.com/python-devs/importlib_resources/issues/58.

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[issue36128] ResourceReader for FileLoader inconsistently handles path separators

2019-11-11 Thread Gregory Szorc


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I think disallowing relative paths that are parents of the current anchor point 
is a reasonable restriction and acceptable backwards incompatible behavior.

Disallowing all relative paths with slashes is a larger issue. I would support 
that if designing/implementing things today as it simplifies things greatly. 
But since an implementation allowing slashes has shipped in 3.7 and 3.8, I'm 
not sure if the backwards incompatibility could be stomached, so I'm not going 
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[issue38594] importlib.metadata documentation deficiencies

2019-10-25 Thread Gregory Szorc


New submission from Gregory Szorc :

As I was attempting to implement the find_distributions() interface for 
PyOxidizer, I got confused by importlib.metadata's documentation.

The documentation for this module states:

```
What this means in practice is that to support finding distribution package
metadata in locations other than the file system, you should derive from
``Distribution`` and implement the ``load_metadata()`` method. Then from
your finder, return instances of this derived ``Distribution`` in the
``find_distributions()`` method.
```

The reference to `load_metadata()` is the only occurrence of the string 
`load_metadata` in the CPython and importlib_metadata code bases. I therefore 
believe the documentation in both CPython and the importlib_metadata standalone 
package are wrong because they are referring to a method that is never 
implemented nor called.

Looking at the documentation and source code for importlib.metadata, I'm also a 
bit confused about how exactly I'm supposed to implement a custom Distribution 
which isn't based on filesystems. For example, I see that certain APIs return 
Path-like objects (which I will need to implement). But it isn't clear exactly 
which attributes are mandated to exist! Am I expected to implement the full 
pathlib.Path interface or just a subset?

Regarding how find_distributions() is called, I also don't understand why the 
Context is optional and how Context could be used in some situations. For 
example, the implementation of discover() can construct Context instances with 
no arguments, which is then fed into find_distributions(). So I guess 
context=None or context.name=None implies "return Distribution's for every 
known package?" If so, this behavior is undocumented.

I'm also not sure what Context.path is for. I /think/ it is only used for the 
path-based finder/distribution. But the way it is documented implies it should 
always exist, which doesn't seem appropriate for cases like PyOxidizer which 
will retrieve metadata from in-memory without filesystem I/O.

I think what I'm trying to say is that the existing documentation for 
importlib.metadata is not sufficient to robustly implement a custom 
find_distributions() + Distribution type. I would kindly request that a domain 
expert revise the documentation such that a 3rd party can implement a custom 
solution. My preferred solution would be for there to be formal interfaces in 
importlib.abc like there are for everything else in the importlib realm. (The 
interfaces for finders and loaders are super useful when implementing a 
finder/loader from scratch.)

FWIW I think I like the new metadata API and I think it is flexible enough to 
allow tools like PyOxidizer to do crazy things like divorce resources from the 
filesystem! But it is hard to say for sure since the interfaces aren't clearly 
defined at present.

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[issue31601] Availability of utimensat, futimens not checked correctly on macOS

2019-08-12 Thread Gregory Szorc


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I ran into this with PyOxidizer. CPython's `configure` needs to be made aware 
of the current macOS SDK version and filter out symbols not present in the 
target macOS version. I worked around it by `undef`'ing some entries from the 
generated `pyconfig.h` file.

macOS's clang does emit some warnings when it sees symbols that shouldn't be 
used with the current target version. CPython's build system should consider 
adding -Werror=unguarded-availability-new to CFLAGS to turn these warnings into 
errors so they are caught at compile time and not run time. But there should be 
proper filtering of affected symbols first, otherwise people won't be able to 
build CPython when targeting older macOS versions.

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[issue37459] importlib docs improperly reference get_resource_loader()

2019-07-02 Thread Gregory Szorc


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I'm a bit busy with other things this week to submit a PR.

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[issue37459] importlib docs improperly reference get_resource_loader()

2019-06-30 Thread Gregory Szorc


New submission from Gregory Szorc :

The documentation in importlib.rst says that a loader should implement 
`get_resource_loader(fullname)`. This is the only occurrence of 
`get_resource_loader` in the CPython source tree. It should be changed to 
`get_resource_reader()`.

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[issue37326] Python distributions do not contain libffi license

2019-06-17 Thread Gregory Szorc


Gregory Szorc  added the comment:

FWIW LICENSE.txt on Windows contains licenses for additional projects starting 
on line 258 (at least in CPython 3.7.3), which contains the section header 
"Additional Conditions for this Windows binary build".

But, the Doc/pythonXXX.chm does indeed contain libffi's license text. So we're 
all good here. I'm not sure why LICENSE.txt on Windows is incomplete. *shrugs*

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[issue37326] Python distributions do not contain libffi license

2019-06-17 Thread Gregory Szorc


New submission from Gregory Szorc :

The Modules/_ctypes/libffi_msvc/ffi.h and 
Modules/_ctypes/libffi_osx/include/ffi.h files in the CPython repository 
contain copies of libffi.

On at least the official Windows distributions, the LICENSE.txt does not 
contain libffi's license text from these files. This is seemingly in violation 
of libffi's license agreement, which clearly says "The above copyright notice 
and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial 
portions of the Software."

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[issue37060] import ctypes fails with a statically linked interpreter due to dlopen() failure

2019-05-26 Thread Gregory Szorc


New submission from Gregory Szorc :

ctypes/__init__.py calls _ctypes.dlopen(None) on Linux as part of code 
execution during module import. Unfortunately, dlopen() doesn't work if the 
current executable isn't a dynamic executable.

Using a fully statically linked Python executable:

$ ldd python3.7
not a dynamic executable

$ python3.7
>>> import _ctypes

>>> _ctypes.dlopen(None)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "", line 1, in 
OSError: Dynamic loading not supported

>>> import ctypes
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "", line 1, in 
  File 
"/home/gps/src/python-build-standalone.git/build/python/install/lib/python3.7/ctypes/__init__.py",
 line 444, in 
pythonapi = PyDLL(None)
  File 
"/home/gps/src/python-build-standalone.git/build/python/install/lib/python3.7/ctypes/__init__.py",
 line 356, in __init__
self._handle = _dlopen(self._name, mode)
OSError: Dynamic loading not supported


I think it is a bug that `import ctypes` raises OSError at import time in this 
environment. I can make a compelling argument that this error should either be 
suppressed or converted to an ImportError.

Producing a fully statically linked Python executable is a bit of work and 
isn't easily accomplished with the existing build system. My 
"python-build-standalone" project automates the process. A fully statically 
linked Python executable is available in the zstd compressed archive at 
https://github.com/indygreg/python-build-standalone/releases/download/20190505/cpython-3.7.3-linux64-musl-20190526T0219.tar.zst
 under the python/install/bin/python3.7 path. Simply extract that archive and 
run that binary to reproduce.

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[issue36129] io documentation unclear about flush() and close() semantics for wrapped streams

2019-03-23 Thread Gregory Szorc


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It's also worth noting that if the wrapped stream close() cascading behavior 
should be configurable, then many additional types in the standard library need 
a constructor argument to control this behavior. e.g. io.TextIOWrapper, 
io.BufferedReader, io.BufferedWriter, codecs.StreamReader, codecs.StreamWriter, 
etc.

In my influenced-by-Rust mind, the problem is similar to "ownership." The 
question we seem to be dancing around is whether the stream wrapper "owns" the 
inner stream or just "borrows" it. If it "owns," then close() cascading 
absolutely makes sense. But if it just "borrows" the inner stream, then close() 
cascading should not occur. There are viable use cases for both scenarios on 
pretty much any stream wrapper. Since existing stream wrappers automatically 
perform close() cascading and __del__ will call close(), I'd be a bit surprised 
if others weren't complaining about the inability to disable close() cascade on 
stream wrappers! e.g. it is perfectly viable to want to temporarily wrap a 
binary stream with an io.TextIOWrapper but the forced close() cascading makes 
this difficult to do since destruction of the outer stream will close() the 
inner stream. So you end up needing to keep references to outer streams alive 
to prevent this. Eww.

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[issue36129] io documentation unclear about flush() and close() semantics for wrapped streams

2019-03-23 Thread Gregory Szorc


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Thank you for the detailed reply, Josh.

I generally agree with what you are saying. However, I have some follow-ups.

In your answer to #2, you seem to distinguish between an "fd" (implying POSIX 
file descriptor) and "Python layers" (implying a file object). Is this correct? 
Should a "closefd" argument only apply when receiving an integer file 
descriptor? Or should a "closefd" argument also apply when receiving any 
io.RawIOBase object? If it doesn't apply for any generic file object, is there 
any recommended way to control whether close() cascades? (My opinion is that 
"closefd" should apply to any object with a close(), not just integer file 
descriptors.)

lzma.LZMAFile and gzip.GZIPFile do *not* cascade close() when a file object (as 
opposed to a named file) is passed into the constructor. (Presumably 
bz2.BZ2File behaves the same way but the documentation doesn't state this.) 
This is inconsistent with your answer that close() should always cascade. It's 
worth noting that the docs for GZIPFile explicitly call out reasons why close() 
does not cascade.

None of these compression *File constructors accept a "closefd" argument to 
control the behavior. If the goal is for close() to cascade by default, then it 
seems useful for these *File types to support automatic close() cascade. 
Although changing the default would be a backwards compatibility break and I'm 
not sure that's feasible. But at least you'd have the ability to opt in to the 
behavior.

It's also worth calling out the behavior of io.BytesIO and io.StringIO. When 
you close() these streams, you cannot call .getvalue() to get the buffer 
content. This is consistent with the io.RawIOBase behavior of not allowing I/O 
after a close(). However, the implication is that if you wrap a 
BytesIO/StringIO and then a close() on the outer stream cascades into the 
BytesIO/StringIO, you won't be able to access the written data! In fact, I 
encountered this problem when writing python-zstandard's unit tests! I had to 
implement a custom type that allowed access to getvalue() post close() 
(https://github.com/indygreg/python-zstandard/blob/735771961bc04f8f7de9372297921826a814fd12/tests/common.py#L82)
 to work around it.

Assuming a "closefd" argument applies to all file objects (not just file 
descriptors) and that all stream wrappers should accept a "closefd" argument to 
control close() cascade, I think I have a path forward for python-zstandard: I 
simply add a "closefd" argument to the stream wrapper constructors. But if 
"closefd" doesn't apply to generic file objects, then I'm still not sure how to 
proceed, as I don't want to implement behavior that conflicts with the standard 
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[issue36129] io documentation unclear about flush() and close() semantics for wrapped streams

2019-02-26 Thread Gregory Szorc


New submission from Gregory Szorc :

As part of implementing io.RawIOBase/io.BufferedIOBase compatible stream types 
for python-zstandard, I became confused about the expected behavior of flush() 
and close() when a stream is wrapping another stream.

The documentation doesn't lay out explicitly when flush() and close() on the 
outer stream should be proxied to the inner stream, if ever.

Here are some specific questions (it would be great to have answers to these in 
the docs):

1. When flush() is called on the outer stream, should flush() be called on the 
inner stream as well? Or should we simply write() to the inner stream and not 
perform a flush() on that inner stream?

2. When close() is called on the outer stream, should close() be called on the 
inner stream as well?

3. If close() is not automatically called on the inner stream during an outer 
stream's close(), should the outer stream trigger a flush() or any other 
special behavior on the inner stream? Or should it just write() any lingering 
data and then go away?

4. Are any of the answers from 1-3 impacted by whether the stream is a reader 
or writer? (Obviously reader streams don't have a meaningful flush() 
implementation.)

5. Are any of the answers from 1-3 impacted by whether the stream is in 
blocking/non-blocking mode?

6. Do any of the answers from 1-3 vary depending on whether behavior is 
incurred by the outer stream's __exit__?

(This issue was inspired by 
https://github.com/indygreg/python-zstandard/issues/76.)

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[issue36128] ResourceReader for FileLoader inconsistently handles path separators

2019-02-26 Thread Gregory Szorc


New submission from Gregory Szorc :

The implementation of the ResourceReader API for the FileLoader class in 
importlib/_bootstrap_external.py is inconsistent with regards to handling of 
path separators.

Specifically, "is_resource()" returns False if "resource" has a path separator. 
But "open_resource()" will happily open resources containing a path separator.

I would think the two would agree about whether a path with separators is a 
resource or not. The documentation at 
https://docs.python.org/3.7/library/importlib.html#importlib.abc.ResourceReader 
implies that resources in subdirectories should not be allowed.

One can easily demonstrate this behavior oddity with Mercurial:

(Pdb) p 
sys.modules['mercurial'].__spec__.loader.get_resource_reader('mercurial').open_resource('help/config.txt')
<_io.FileIO name='/home/gps/src/hg/mercurial/help/config.txt' mode='rb' 
closefd=True>
(Pdb) p 
sys.modules['mercurial'].__spec__.loader.get_resource_reader('mercurial').is_resource('help/config.txt')
False

The behavior has been present since the functionality was added 
(https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/5168).

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[issue35642] _asynciomodule.c compiled in both pythoncore.vcxproj and _asyncio.vcxproj

2019-01-02 Thread Gregory Szorc


New submission from Gregory Szorc :

The _asynciomodule.c source file is compiled as part of both pythoncore.vcxproj 
(providing pythonXY.dll) and _asyncio.vcxproj (providing _asyncio.pyd).

PC\config.c doesn't reference PyInit__asyncio. I'm inclined to believe that 
_asynciomodule.c being built as part of pythoncore.vcxproj is a mistake.

If all goes according to plan, I will contribute my first CPython patch with a 
fix shortly...

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[issue31148] Can we get an MSI installer for something past 3.4.4?

2018-01-06 Thread Gregory Szorc

Gregory Szorc  added the comment:

I was going to update some CI that tests all supported versions of Python and 
pins the Python 3 versions. That CI was previously using the MSI installers for 
Python 3.4. To my surprise, the MSIs stopped being generated after the 3.4.4 
release! https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.4.4/ has MSIs (and MacOS .pkg 
files). But all subsequent releases (e.g. 
https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.4.7/) do not.

I'm OK with the decision to abandon MSIs and move to the .exe installer for 
newer Python releases (like 3.5 and 3.6). However, ceasing to produce the MSIs 
(and MacOS .pkg files for that matter) midway through 3.4's support cycle feels 
wrong to me. 3.4.4 was the last release with binary distributions for Windows 
and MacOS. 3.4.5 and newer releases have fixes to security issues. That means 
people using the binary distributions of 3.4 on these platforms are stuck on 
3.4.4 and are thus vulnerable to known security issues. That's... not great.

I think the MSI (and .pkg) distributions should be restored for 3.4. 
Furthermore, I would encourage Python to adopt the practice that distribution 
mechanisms aren't modified during a Python version's support cycle. Someone 
will inevitably rely on any distribution format that is published. And taking 
it away in a support cycle will orphan those users on an old, buggy release.

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[issue30625] Documentation is unclear how "y*" and "y#" format units vary

2017-06-15 Thread Gregory Szorc

Gregory Szorc added the comment:

IMO I don't find the 3.2 docs more useful. Specifically, the behavior for 
memoryview is still unclear.

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[issue30625] Documentation is unclear how "y*" and "y#" formit units vary

2017-06-10 Thread Gregory Szorc

New submission from Gregory Szorc:

https://github.com/indygreg/python-zstandard/issues/26 is a bug report against 
python-zstandard that a C API using the "y#" format unit is unable to accept a 
memoryview instance constructed from a bytes literal. It fails with "TypeError: 
argument 1 must be read-only bytes-like object, not memoryview".

I understand why the "y*" format unit and the buffer protocol are a superior 
API. In hindsight, I should have used the buffer protocol from the beginning in 
python-zstandard. However, this decision was primarily influenced because the 
docs aren't clear about the apparent limitations of "y#" compared to "y*" and I 
believed "y#" would get me what I wanted (pointer to read-only memory) without 
having to be burdened by the complexity of the buffer protocol in my C code.

So, docs issue #1 is that the limitations of "y#" compared to "y*" aren't 
immediately obvious when reading their respective sections in 
https://docs.python.org/3/c-api/arg.html#strings-and-buffers. To their credit, 
the docs for "y*" do have a bold recommendation to use it. But what's missing 
is the critical "why." There is also a paragraph above the format unit list 
explaining "bytes-like object" but this is detached from the definitions for 
"y#" and "y*" so it is easy to pass over.

Issue #2 (which may be an implementation bug) is why "y#" isn't accepting a 
memoryview constructed from bytes. The docs for "y#" say it accepts a 
"read-only bytes-like object," which is defined at 
https://docs.python.org/3/glossary.html#term-bytes-like-object. And the 
paragraphs there explicitly state that a memoryview of an immutable bytes is in 
fact a "read-only bytes-like object." So I have no clue why "y#" is refusing 
such an object.

I'll gladly author a documentation fix. However, I'm not sure what to say 
because I don't understand why "y#" isn't working in this memoryview(bytes) 
case and whether that issue applies to other types.

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title: Documentation is unclear how "y*" and "y#" formit units vary
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[issue23051] multiprocessing.pool methods imap()[_unordered()] deadlock

2015-08-10 Thread Gregory Szorc

Gregory Szorc added the comment:

For posterity, I think we ran into a similar problem in 
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1191877, where our code uses 
apply_async():

11:09:47 INFO -  Exception in thread Thread-2:
11:09:47 INFO -  Traceback (most recent call last):
11:09:47 INFO -File "/tools/python/lib/python2.7/threading.py", line 
551, in __bootstrap_inner
11:09:47 INFO -  self.run()
11:09:47 INFO -File "/tools/python/lib/python2.7/threading.py", line 
504, in run
11:09:47 INFO -  self.__target(*self.__args, **self.__kwargs)
11:09:47 INFO -File 
"/tools/python/lib/python2.7/multiprocessing/pool.py", line 319, in 
_handle_tasks
11:09:47 INFO -  put(task)
11:09:47 INFO -  RuntimeError: dictionary changed size during iteration

This resulted in deadlock, just like this issue.

The added try..except around the iteration of taskseq likely fixes this as well.

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[issue23246] distutils fails to locate vcvarsall with Visual C++ Compiler for Python

2015-01-16 Thread Gregory Szorc

Gregory Szorc added the comment:

Thanks, Steve.

The package I was trying to build has its setup.py importing "setup" from 
distutils, not setuptools. I'll see about porting them to the future.

For posterity, https://bitbucket.org/pypa/setuptools/issue/258, which was first 
released in setuptools 6.0.

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[issue23246] distutils fails to locate vcvarsall with Visual C++ Compiler for Python

2015-01-15 Thread Gregory Szorc

Gregory Szorc added the comment:

The first sentence in my original report is ambiguous. I tested with distutils 
on Python 2.7.9. But considering the code in question hasn't changed since 
2011, I think it's safe to say this isn't a regression in CPython.

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[issue23246] distutils fails to locate vcvarsall with Visual C++ Compiler for Python

2015-01-15 Thread Gregory Szorc

New submission from Gregory Szorc:

distutils as of Python 2.7.9 is unable to locate vcvarsall.bat if Visual C++ 
Compiler for Python is the only Visual Studio "distribution" installed.

STR:

1) Do a fresh install of Windows + all updates
2) Install Microsoft Visual C++ Compiler for Python from 
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=44266
3) Enter a Visual C++ 2008 command prompt via start menu 
4) Attempt to run any |python.exe setup.py| that contains C extensions
5) "Unable to find vcvarsall.bat"

Examining the behavior of MSVC for Python's bat scripts and filesystem layout, 
it is different enough from "full" "distributions" that it confused distutils.

First, MSVC for Python doesn't appear to set any meaningful registry entries. 
So, the registry checking in msvc9compiler fails to find anything.

Second, the command environment for MSVC for Python doesn't export 
VS90COMNTOOLS, so msvc9compiler has no clue where to go looking for files.

Third, even if VS90COMNTOOLS is set, msvc9compiler isn't able to find 
vcvarsall.bat because it is installed in %installdir%/vcvarsall.bat and not 
%installdir%/VC/vcvarsall.bat, unlike every other Visual Studio AFAICT.

Another concern is that distutils.msvc9compiler.find_vcvarsall() first attempts 
to read from the registry, not the environment. If you are in a MSVC for Python 
command shell and you also have Visual Studio 2008 installed, distutils will 
use vcvarsall.bat from the full Visual Studio installation instead of the 
Python one. I think this is wrong.

The MSVC for Python command prompt does have an environment variable that can 
be used: VCINSTALLDIR. It is set to %installdir%\VC\, which is equivalent to 
~/AppData/Local/Programs/Common/Microsoft/Visual C++ for Python/9.0/VC/ if you 
launch the installer with default options. distutils could be patched to find 
vcvarsall.bat in %VCINSTALLDIR%\..\vcvarsall.bat

Fortunately, a workaround is available:

1) Enter MSVC for Python command prompt
2) SET DISTUTILS_USE_SDK=1
3) SET MSSdk=1
4) python.exe setup.py ...

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