Bugs item #876278, was opened at 2004-01-13 19:46 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by jvr You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=105470&aid=876278&group_id=5470

Category: Python Library Group: Python 2.3 Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Submitted By: Thomas Heller (theller) Assigned to: Just van Rossum (jvr) Summary: Unbounded recursion in modulefinder

Initial Comment: modulefinder goes into unbounded recursion when a module named 'path.py', containing 'import os', is on sys.path.

Last part of the traceback: File "c:\python23\lib\modulefinder.py", line 255, in import_module m = self.load_module(fqname, fp, pathname, stuff) File "c:\python23\lib\modulefinder.py", line 285, in load_module self.scan_code(co, m) File "c:\python23\lib\modulefinder.py", line 342, in scan_code self._safe_import_hook(name, m, fromlist) File "c:\python23\lib\modulefinder.py", line 300, in _safe_import_hook self.import_hook(name, caller) File "c:\python23\lib\modulefinder.py", line 124, in import_hook q, tail = self.find_head_package(parent, name) File "c:\python23\lib\modulefinder.py", line 166, in find_head_package q = self.import_module(head, qname, parent) File "c:\python23\lib\modulefinder.py", line 237, in import_module self.msgin(3, "import_module", partname, fqname, parent) RuntimeError: maximum recursion depth exceeded

Running modulefinder with the '-x os.path' command line option prevents the recursion.

This is not really a contrived situation, there&#039;s a possibly useful path.py module from Jason Orendorff at <http://www.jorendorff.com/articles/python/path>

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Date: 2004-03-25 21:53

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Hm, not really. Do you have any idea what's causing it?

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Comment By: Thomas Heller (theller) Date: 2004-03-25 21:06

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<ping> Just, do you have time to look into this?

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Comment By: Thomas Heller (theller) Date: 2004-01-28 21:36

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Just, do you have time to look into this?

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