"""Test that sys.modules is used properly by import.""" from test.test_importlib import util import sys from types import MethodType import unittest import warnings class UseCache: """When it comes to sys.modules, import prefers it over anything else. Once a name has been resolved, sys.modules is checked to see if it contains the module desired. If so, then it is returned [use cache]. If it is not found, then the proper steps are taken to perform the import, but sys.modules is still used to return the imported module (e.g., not what a loader returns) [from cache on return]. This also applies to imports of things contained within a package and thus get assigned as an attribute [from cache to attribute] or pulled in thanks to a fromlist import [from cache for fromlist]. But if sys.modules contains None then ImportError is raised [None in cache]. """ def test_using_cache(self): # [use cache] module_to_use = "some module found!" with util.uncache('some_module'): sys.modules['some_module'] = module_to_use module = self.__import__('some_module') self.assertEqual(id(module_to_use), id(module)) def test_None_in_cache(self): #[None in cache] name = 'using_None' with util.uncache(name): sys.modules[name] = None with self.assertRaises(ImportError) as cm: self.__import__(name) self.assertEqual(cm.exception.name, name) (Frozen_UseCache, Source_UseCache ) = util.test_both(UseCache, __import__=util.__import__) class ImportlibUseCache(UseCache, unittest.TestCase): # Pertinent only to PEP 302; exec_module() doesn't return a module. __import__ = util.__import__['Source'] def create_mock(self, *names, return_=None): mock = util.mock_spec(*names) original_spec = mock.find_spec def find_spec(self, fullname, path, target=None): return original_spec(fullname) mock.find_spec = MethodType(find_spec, mock) return mock # __import__ inconsistent between loaders and built-in import when it comes # to when to use the module in sys.modules and when not to. def test_using_cache_after_loader(self): # [from cache on return] with warnings.catch_warnings(): warnings.simplefilter("ignore", ImportWarning) with self.create_mock('module') as mock: with util.import_state(meta_path=[mock]): module = self.__import__('module') self.assertEqual(id(module), id(sys.modules['module'])) # See test_using_cache_after_loader() for reasoning. def test_using_cache_for_assigning_to_attribute(self): # [from cache to attribute] with warnings.catch_warnings(): warnings.simplefilter("ignore", ImportWarning) with self.create_mock('pkg.__init__', 'pkg.module') as importer: with util.import_state(meta_path=[importer]): module = self.__import__('pkg.module') self.assertTrue(hasattr(module, 'module')) self.assertEqual(id(module.module), id(sys.modules['pkg.module'])) # See test_using_cache_after_loader() for reasoning. def test_using_cache_for_fromlist(self): # [from cache for fromlist] with self.create_mock('pkg.__init__', 'pkg.module') as importer: with util.import_state(meta_path=[importer]): module = self.__import__('pkg', fromlist=['module']) self.assertTrue(hasattr(module, 'module')) self.assertEqual(id(module.module), id(sys.modules['pkg.module'])) if __name__ == '__main__': unittest.main()