PEP 489: Multi-phase extension module initialization
Known limitations of the current implementation:
- documentation changes are incomplete
- there's a reference leak I haven't tracked down yet
The leak is most visible by running:
./python -m test -R3:3 test_importlib
However, you can also see it by running:
./python -X showrefcount
Importing the array or _testmultiphase modules, and
then deleting them from both sys.modules and the local
namespace shows significant increases in the total
number of active references each cycle. By contrast,
with _testcapi (which continues to use single-phase
initialisation) the global refcounts stabilise after
a couple of cycles.
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 0f88e78..b36de5f 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -620,6 +620,8 @@
exts.append( Extension('_testbuffer', ['_testbuffer.c']) )
# Test loading multiple modules from one compiled file (http://bugs.python.org/issue16421)
exts.append( Extension('_testimportmultiple', ['_testimportmultiple.c']) )
+ # Test multi-phase extension module init (PEP 489)
+ exts.append( Extension('_testmultiphase', ['_testmultiphase.c']) )
# profiler (_lsprof is for cProfile.py)
exts.append( Extension('_lsprof', ['_lsprof.c', 'rotatingtree.c']) )
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