Issue 18602: "_io" module names itself "io" (original) (raw)

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Created on 2013-07-30 19:57 by pitrou, last changed 2022-04-11 14:57 by admin.

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msg193953 - (view)	Author: Antoine Pitrou (pitrou) *	Date: 2013-07-30 19:57
In Modules/_io/_iomodule.c, the name field of the module struct is initialized to "io" rather than "_io". The change should intuitively be harmless, but perhaps there's a reason why it is like that?
msg194676 - (view)	Author: Ezio Melotti (ezio.melotti) *	Date: 2013-08-08 13:59
Have you tried to change it and run the test suite? Maybe it breaks pickling or something similar?
msg194678 - (view)	Author: Antoine Pitrou (pitrou) *	Date: 2013-08-08 14:00
> Have you tried to change it and run the test suite? Maybe it breaks > pickling or something similar? Yeah, it came to me that it may break pickle. The test suite may not pick it, though.