Issues #15169, #14599: Make PyImport_ExecCodeModuleWithPathnames() use
Lib/imp.py for imp.source_from_cache() instead of its own C version.
Also change PyImport_ExecCodeModuleObject() to not infer the source
path from the bytecode path like
PyImport_ExecCodeModuleWithPathnames() does. This makes the function
less magical.
This also has the side-effect of removing all uses of MAXPATHLEN in
Python/import.c which can cause failures on really long filenames.
diff --git a/Doc/c-api/import.rst b/Doc/c-api/import.rst
index 2d0d1b5..c718057 100644
--- a/Doc/c-api/import.rst
+++ b/Doc/c-api/import.rst
@@ -163,9 +163,14 @@
.. c:function:: PyObject* PyImport_ExecCodeModuleWithPathnames(char *name, PyObject *co, char *pathname, char *cpathname)
Like :c:func:`PyImport_ExecCodeModuleObject`, but *name*, *pathname* and
- *cpathname* are UTF-8 encoded strings.
+ *cpathname* are UTF-8 encoded strings. Attempts are also made to figure out
+ what the value for *pathname* should be from *cpathname* if the former is
+ set to ``NULL``.
.. versionadded:: 3.2
+ .. versionchanged:: 3.3
+ Uses :func:`imp.source_from_cache()` in calculating the source path if
+ only the bytecode path is provided.
.. c:function:: long PyImport_GetMagicNumber()