[Python-Dev] PEP 338 - Executing Modules as Scripts (original) (raw)

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Sat Feb 11 18:02:25 CET 2006

Nick Coghlan wrote:

Paul Moore wrote:

On 2/11/06, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:

I finally finished updating PEP 338 to comply with the flexible importing system in PEP 302.

The result is a not-yet-thoroughly-tested module that should allow the -m switch to execute any module written in Python that is accessible via an absolute import statement. Does this implementation resolve http://www.python.org/sf/1250389 as well? A reading of the PEP would seem to imply that it does, but the SF patches you mention don't include any changes to the core, so I'm not sure... It will. I haven't updated the command line switch itself yet, so you'd need to do "-m runpy ". I do plan on fixing the switch, but at the moment there's a bug in the module's handling of nested packages, so I want to sort that out first.

OK, nested packages now work right (I'd managed to make the common mistake that's highlighted quite clearly in the docs for import).

Running from inside a zipfile also appears to be working, but I don't have zlib in my Python 2.5 build to be 100% certain of that (I could check for certain with Python 2.4, but that would involve enough mucking around that I don't want to do it right now).

My aim is to have a patch up for the command line switch tomorrow. It shouldn't be too tricky, since it is just a matter of retrieving and calling the function from the module.

That should supply the last missing piece for the PEP implementation (aside from figuring out how to integrate my current manual test setup for runpy.run_module into the unit tests - it shouldn't be that hard to create a temp directory and add some files to it, similar to what test_pkg already does).

Cheers, Nick.

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