bpo-38076 Clear the interpreter state only after clearing module globals (GH-18039)
Currently, during runtime destruction, `_PyImport_Cleanup` is clearing the interpreter state before clearing out the modules themselves. This leads to a segfault on modules that rely on the module state to clear themselves up.
For example, let's take the small snippet added in the issue by @DinoV :
```
import _struct
class C:
def __init__(self):
self.pack = _struct.pack
def __del__(self):
self.pack('I', -42)
_struct.x = C()
```
The module `_struct` uses the module state to run `pack`. Therefore, the module state has to be alive until after the module has been cleared out to successfully run `C.__del__`. This happens at line 606, when `_PyImport_Cleanup` calls `_PyModule_Clear`. In fact, the loop that calls `_PyModule_Clear` has in its comments:
> Now, if there are any modules left alive, clear their globals to minimize potential leaks. All C extension modules actually end up here, since they are kept alive in the interpreter state.
That means that we can't clear the module state (which is used by C Extensions) before we run that loop.
Moving `_PyInterpreterState_ClearModules` until after it, fixes the segfault in the code snippet.
Finally, this updates a test in `io` to correctly assert the error that it now throws (since it now finds the io module state). The test that uses this is: `test_create_at_shutdown_without_encoding`. Given this test is now working is a proof that the module state now stays alive even when `__del__` is called at module destruction time. Thus, I didn't add a new tests for this.
https://bugs.python.org/issue380765 files changed