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mercurial: implement import hook for handling C/Python modules There are a handful of modules that have both pure Python and C extension implementations. Currently, setup.py copies files from mercurial/pure/*.py to mercurial/ during the install process if C extensions are not available. This way, "import mercurial.X" will work whether C extensions are available or not. This approach has a few drawbacks. First, there aren't run-time checks verifying the C extensions are loaded when they should be. This could lead to accidental use of the slower pure Python modules. Second, the C extensions aren't compatible with PyPy and running Mercurial with PyPy requires installing Mercurial - you can't run ./hg from a source checkout. This makes developing while running PyPy somewhat difficult. This patch implements a PEP-302 import hook for finding and loading the modules with both C and Python implementations. When a module with dual implementations is requested for import, its import is handled by our import hook. The importer has a mechanism that controls what types of modules we allow to load. We call this loading behavior the "module load policy." There are 3 settings: * Only load C extensions * Only load pure Python * Try to load C and fall back to Python An environment variable allows overriding this policy at run time. This is mainly useful for developers and for performing actions against the source checkout (such as installing), which require overriding the default (strict) policy about requiring C extensions. The default mode for now is to allow both. This isn't proper and is technically backwards incompatible. However, it is necessary to implement a sane patch series that doesn't break the world during future bisections. The behavior will be corrected in future patch. We choose the main mercurial/__init__.py module for this code out of necessity: in a future world, if the custom module importer isn't registered, we'll fail to find/import certain modules when running from a pure installation. Without the magical import-time side-effects, *any* importer of mercurial.* modules would be required to call a function to register our importer. I'm not a fan of import time side effects and I initially attempted to do this. However, I was foiled by our own test harness, which has numerous `python` invoked scripts that "import mercurial" and fail because the importer isn't registered. Realizing this problem is probably present in random Python scripts that have been written over the years, I decided that sacrificing purity for backwards compatibility is necessary. Plus, if you are programming Python, "import" should probably "just work." It's worth noting that now that we have a custom module loader, it would be possible to hook up demand module proxies at this level instead of replacing __import__. We leave this work for another time, if it's even desired. This patch breaks importing in environments where Mercurial modules are loaded from a zip file (such as py2exe distributions). This will be addressed in a subsequent patch.
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# __init__.py - Startup and module loading logic for Mercurial.
#
# Copyright 2015 Gregory Szorc <gregory.szorc@gmail.com>
#
# This software may be used and distributed according to the terms of the
# GNU General Public License version 2 or any later version.
from __future__ import absolute_import
import sys
# Allow 'from mercurial import demandimport' to keep working.
import hgdemandimport
demandimport = hgdemandimport
__all__ = []
mercurial: implement a source transforming module loader on Python 3 The most painful part of ensuring Python code runs on both Python 2 and 3 is string encoding. Making this difficult is that string literals in Python 2 are bytes and string literals in Python 3 are unicode. So, to ensure consistent types are used, you have to use "from __future__ import unicode_literals" and/or prefix literals with their type (e.g. b'foo' or u'foo'). Nearly every string in Mercurial is bytes. So, to use the same source code on both Python 2 and 3 would require prefixing nearly every string literal with "b" to make it a byte literal. This is ugly and not something mpm is willing to do at this point in time. This patch implements a custom module loader on Python 3 that performs source transformation to convert string literals (unicode in Python 3) to byte literals. In effect, it changes Python 3's string literals to behave like Python 2's. In addition, the module loader recognizes well-known built-in functions (getattr, setattr, hasattr) and methods (encode and decode) that barf when bytes are used and prevents these from being rewritten. This prevents excessive source changes to accommodate this change (we would have to rewrite every occurrence of these functions passing string literals otherwise). The module loader is only used on Python packages belonging to Mercurial. The loader works by tokenizing the loaded source and replacing "string" tokens if necessary. The modified token stream is untokenized back to source and loaded like normal. This does add some overhead. However, this all occurs before caching: .pyc files will cache the transformed version. This means the transformation penalty is only paid on first load. As the extensive inline comments explain, the presence of a custom source transformer invalidates assumptions made by Python's built-in bytecode caching mechanism. So, we have to wrap bytecode loading and writing and add an additional header to bytecode files to facilitate additional cache validation when the source transformations change in the future. There are still a few things this code doesn't handle well, namely support for zip files as module sources and for extensions. Since Mercurial doesn't officially support Python 3 yet, I'm inclined to leave these as to-do items: getting a basic module loading mechanism in place to unblock further Python 3 porting effort is more important than comprehensive module importing support. check-py3-compat.py has been updated to ignore frames. This is necessary because CPython has built-in code to strip frames from the built-in importer. When our custom code is present, this doesn't work and the frames get all messed up. The new code is not perfect. It works for now. But once you start chasing import failures you find some edge cases where the files aren't being printed properly. This only burdens people doing future Python 3 porting work so I'm inclined to punt on the issue: the most important thing is for the source transforming module loader to land. There was a bit of churn in test-check-py3-compat.t because we now trip up on str/unicode/bytes failures as a result of source transformation. This is unfortunate but what are you going to do. It's worth noting that other approaches were investigated. We considered using a custom file encoding whose decode() would apply source transformations. This was rejected because it would require each source file to declare its custom Mercurial encoding. Furthermore, when changing the source transformation we'd need to version bump the encoding name otherwise the module caching layer wouldn't know the .pyc file was invalidated. This would mean mass updating every file when the source transformation changes. Yuck. We also considered transforming at the AST layer. However, Python's ast module is quite gnarly and doing AST transforms is quite complicated, even for trivial rewrites. There are whole Python packages that exist to make AST transformations usable. AST transforms would still require import machinery, so the choice was basically to perform source-level, token-level, or ast-level transforms. Token-level rewriting delivers the metadata we need to rewrite intelligently while being relatively easy to understand. So it won. General consensus seems to be that this approach is the best available to avoid bulk rewriting of '' to b''. However, we aren't confident that this approach will never be a future maintenance burden. This approach does unblock serious Python 3 porting efforts. So we can re-evaulate once more work is done to support Python 3.
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# Python 3 uses a custom module loader that transforms source code between
# source file reading and compilation. This is done by registering a custom
# finder that changes the spec for Mercurial modules to use a custom loader.
if sys.version_info[0] >= 3:
import importlib
import importlib.abc
mercurial: implement a source transforming module loader on Python 3 The most painful part of ensuring Python code runs on both Python 2 and 3 is string encoding. Making this difficult is that string literals in Python 2 are bytes and string literals in Python 3 are unicode. So, to ensure consistent types are used, you have to use "from __future__ import unicode_literals" and/or prefix literals with their type (e.g. b'foo' or u'foo'). Nearly every string in Mercurial is bytes. So, to use the same source code on both Python 2 and 3 would require prefixing nearly every string literal with "b" to make it a byte literal. This is ugly and not something mpm is willing to do at this point in time. This patch implements a custom module loader on Python 3 that performs source transformation to convert string literals (unicode in Python 3) to byte literals. In effect, it changes Python 3's string literals to behave like Python 2's. In addition, the module loader recognizes well-known built-in functions (getattr, setattr, hasattr) and methods (encode and decode) that barf when bytes are used and prevents these from being rewritten. This prevents excessive source changes to accommodate this change (we would have to rewrite every occurrence of these functions passing string literals otherwise). The module loader is only used on Python packages belonging to Mercurial. The loader works by tokenizing the loaded source and replacing "string" tokens if necessary. The modified token stream is untokenized back to source and loaded like normal. This does add some overhead. However, this all occurs before caching: .pyc files will cache the transformed version. This means the transformation penalty is only paid on first load. As the extensive inline comments explain, the presence of a custom source transformer invalidates assumptions made by Python's built-in bytecode caching mechanism. So, we have to wrap bytecode loading and writing and add an additional header to bytecode files to facilitate additional cache validation when the source transformations change in the future. There are still a few things this code doesn't handle well, namely support for zip files as module sources and for extensions. Since Mercurial doesn't officially support Python 3 yet, I'm inclined to leave these as to-do items: getting a basic module loading mechanism in place to unblock further Python 3 porting effort is more important than comprehensive module importing support. check-py3-compat.py has been updated to ignore frames. This is necessary because CPython has built-in code to strip frames from the built-in importer. When our custom code is present, this doesn't work and the frames get all messed up. The new code is not perfect. It works for now. But once you start chasing import failures you find some edge cases where the files aren't being printed properly. This only burdens people doing future Python 3 porting work so I'm inclined to punt on the issue: the most important thing is for the source transforming module loader to land. There was a bit of churn in test-check-py3-compat.t because we now trip up on str/unicode/bytes failures as a result of source transformation. This is unfortunate but what are you going to do. It's worth noting that other approaches were investigated. We considered using a custom file encoding whose decode() would apply source transformations. This was rejected because it would require each source file to declare its custom Mercurial encoding. Furthermore, when changing the source transformation we'd need to version bump the encoding name otherwise the module caching layer wouldn't know the .pyc file was invalidated. This would mean mass updating every file when the source transformation changes. Yuck. We also considered transforming at the AST layer. However, Python's ast module is quite gnarly and doing AST transforms is quite complicated, even for trivial rewrites. There are whole Python packages that exist to make AST transformations usable. AST transforms would still require import machinery, so the choice was basically to perform source-level, token-level, or ast-level transforms. Token-level rewriting delivers the metadata we need to rewrite intelligently while being relatively easy to understand. So it won. General consensus seems to be that this approach is the best available to avoid bulk rewriting of '' to b''. However, we aren't confident that this approach will never be a future maintenance burden. This approach does unblock serious Python 3 porting efforts. So we can re-evaulate once more work is done to support Python 3.
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import io
import token
import tokenize
class hgpathentryfinder(importlib.abc.MetaPathFinder):
"""A sys.meta_path finder that uses a custom module loader."""
def find_spec(self, fullname, path, target=None):
# Only handle Mercurial-related modules.
if not fullname.startswith(('mercurial.', 'hgext.', 'hgext3rd.')):
return None
# zstd is already dual-version clean, don't try and mangle it
if fullname.startswith('mercurial.zstd'):
return None
# pywatchman is already dual-version clean, don't try and mangle it
if fullname.startswith('hgext.fsmonitor.pywatchman'):
return None
mercurial: implement a source transforming module loader on Python 3 The most painful part of ensuring Python code runs on both Python 2 and 3 is string encoding. Making this difficult is that string literals in Python 2 are bytes and string literals in Python 3 are unicode. So, to ensure consistent types are used, you have to use "from __future__ import unicode_literals" and/or prefix literals with their type (e.g. b'foo' or u'foo'). Nearly every string in Mercurial is bytes. So, to use the same source code on both Python 2 and 3 would require prefixing nearly every string literal with "b" to make it a byte literal. This is ugly and not something mpm is willing to do at this point in time. This patch implements a custom module loader on Python 3 that performs source transformation to convert string literals (unicode in Python 3) to byte literals. In effect, it changes Python 3's string literals to behave like Python 2's. In addition, the module loader recognizes well-known built-in functions (getattr, setattr, hasattr) and methods (encode and decode) that barf when bytes are used and prevents these from being rewritten. This prevents excessive source changes to accommodate this change (we would have to rewrite every occurrence of these functions passing string literals otherwise). The module loader is only used on Python packages belonging to Mercurial. The loader works by tokenizing the loaded source and replacing "string" tokens if necessary. The modified token stream is untokenized back to source and loaded like normal. This does add some overhead. However, this all occurs before caching: .pyc files will cache the transformed version. This means the transformation penalty is only paid on first load. As the extensive inline comments explain, the presence of a custom source transformer invalidates assumptions made by Python's built-in bytecode caching mechanism. So, we have to wrap bytecode loading and writing and add an additional header to bytecode files to facilitate additional cache validation when the source transformations change in the future. There are still a few things this code doesn't handle well, namely support for zip files as module sources and for extensions. Since Mercurial doesn't officially support Python 3 yet, I'm inclined to leave these as to-do items: getting a basic module loading mechanism in place to unblock further Python 3 porting effort is more important than comprehensive module importing support. check-py3-compat.py has been updated to ignore frames. This is necessary because CPython has built-in code to strip frames from the built-in importer. When our custom code is present, this doesn't work and the frames get all messed up. The new code is not perfect. It works for now. But once you start chasing import failures you find some edge cases where the files aren't being printed properly. This only burdens people doing future Python 3 porting work so I'm inclined to punt on the issue: the most important thing is for the source transforming module loader to land. There was a bit of churn in test-check-py3-compat.t because we now trip up on str/unicode/bytes failures as a result of source transformation. This is unfortunate but what are you going to do. It's worth noting that other approaches were investigated. We considered using a custom file encoding whose decode() would apply source transformations. This was rejected because it would require each source file to declare its custom Mercurial encoding. Furthermore, when changing the source transformation we'd need to version bump the encoding name otherwise the module caching layer wouldn't know the .pyc file was invalidated. This would mean mass updating every file when the source transformation changes. Yuck. We also considered transforming at the AST layer. However, Python's ast module is quite gnarly and doing AST transforms is quite complicated, even for trivial rewrites. There are whole Python packages that exist to make AST transformations usable. AST transforms would still require import machinery, so the choice was basically to perform source-level, token-level, or ast-level transforms. Token-level rewriting delivers the metadata we need to rewrite intelligently while being relatively easy to understand. So it won. General consensus seems to be that this approach is the best available to avoid bulk rewriting of '' to b''. However, we aren't confident that this approach will never be a future maintenance burden. This approach does unblock serious Python 3 porting efforts. So we can re-evaulate once more work is done to support Python 3.
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# Try to find the module using other registered finders.
spec = None
for finder in sys.meta_path:
if finder == self:
continue
spec = finder.find_spec(fullname, path, target=target)
if spec:
break
# This is a Mercurial-related module but we couldn't find it
# using the previously-registered finders. This likely means
# the module doesn't exist.
if not spec:
return None
# TODO need to support loaders from alternate specs, like zip
# loaders.
loader = hgloader(spec.name, spec.origin)
# Can't use util.safehasattr here because that would require
# importing util, and we're in import code.
if hasattr(spec.loader, 'loader'): # hasattr-py3-only
# This is a nested loader (maybe a lazy loader?)
spec.loader.loader = loader
else:
spec.loader = loader
mercurial: implement a source transforming module loader on Python 3 The most painful part of ensuring Python code runs on both Python 2 and 3 is string encoding. Making this difficult is that string literals in Python 2 are bytes and string literals in Python 3 are unicode. So, to ensure consistent types are used, you have to use "from __future__ import unicode_literals" and/or prefix literals with their type (e.g. b'foo' or u'foo'). Nearly every string in Mercurial is bytes. So, to use the same source code on both Python 2 and 3 would require prefixing nearly every string literal with "b" to make it a byte literal. This is ugly and not something mpm is willing to do at this point in time. This patch implements a custom module loader on Python 3 that performs source transformation to convert string literals (unicode in Python 3) to byte literals. In effect, it changes Python 3's string literals to behave like Python 2's. In addition, the module loader recognizes well-known built-in functions (getattr, setattr, hasattr) and methods (encode and decode) that barf when bytes are used and prevents these from being rewritten. This prevents excessive source changes to accommodate this change (we would have to rewrite every occurrence of these functions passing string literals otherwise). The module loader is only used on Python packages belonging to Mercurial. The loader works by tokenizing the loaded source and replacing "string" tokens if necessary. The modified token stream is untokenized back to source and loaded like normal. This does add some overhead. However, this all occurs before caching: .pyc files will cache the transformed version. This means the transformation penalty is only paid on first load. As the extensive inline comments explain, the presence of a custom source transformer invalidates assumptions made by Python's built-in bytecode caching mechanism. So, we have to wrap bytecode loading and writing and add an additional header to bytecode files to facilitate additional cache validation when the source transformations change in the future. There are still a few things this code doesn't handle well, namely support for zip files as module sources and for extensions. Since Mercurial doesn't officially support Python 3 yet, I'm inclined to leave these as to-do items: getting a basic module loading mechanism in place to unblock further Python 3 porting effort is more important than comprehensive module importing support. check-py3-compat.py has been updated to ignore frames. This is necessary because CPython has built-in code to strip frames from the built-in importer. When our custom code is present, this doesn't work and the frames get all messed up. The new code is not perfect. It works for now. But once you start chasing import failures you find some edge cases where the files aren't being printed properly. This only burdens people doing future Python 3 porting work so I'm inclined to punt on the issue: the most important thing is for the source transforming module loader to land. There was a bit of churn in test-check-py3-compat.t because we now trip up on str/unicode/bytes failures as a result of source transformation. This is unfortunate but what are you going to do. It's worth noting that other approaches were investigated. We considered using a custom file encoding whose decode() would apply source transformations. This was rejected because it would require each source file to declare its custom Mercurial encoding. Furthermore, when changing the source transformation we'd need to version bump the encoding name otherwise the module caching layer wouldn't know the .pyc file was invalidated. This would mean mass updating every file when the source transformation changes. Yuck. We also considered transforming at the AST layer. However, Python's ast module is quite gnarly and doing AST transforms is quite complicated, even for trivial rewrites. There are whole Python packages that exist to make AST transformations usable. AST transforms would still require import machinery, so the choice was basically to perform source-level, token-level, or ast-level transforms. Token-level rewriting delivers the metadata we need to rewrite intelligently while being relatively easy to understand. So it won. General consensus seems to be that this approach is the best available to avoid bulk rewriting of '' to b''. However, we aren't confident that this approach will never be a future maintenance burden. This approach does unblock serious Python 3 porting efforts. So we can re-evaulate once more work is done to support Python 3.
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return spec
def replacetokens(tokens, fullname):
mercurial: implement a source transforming module loader on Python 3 The most painful part of ensuring Python code runs on both Python 2 and 3 is string encoding. Making this difficult is that string literals in Python 2 are bytes and string literals in Python 3 are unicode. So, to ensure consistent types are used, you have to use "from __future__ import unicode_literals" and/or prefix literals with their type (e.g. b'foo' or u'foo'). Nearly every string in Mercurial is bytes. So, to use the same source code on both Python 2 and 3 would require prefixing nearly every string literal with "b" to make it a byte literal. This is ugly and not something mpm is willing to do at this point in time. This patch implements a custom module loader on Python 3 that performs source transformation to convert string literals (unicode in Python 3) to byte literals. In effect, it changes Python 3's string literals to behave like Python 2's. In addition, the module loader recognizes well-known built-in functions (getattr, setattr, hasattr) and methods (encode and decode) that barf when bytes are used and prevents these from being rewritten. This prevents excessive source changes to accommodate this change (we would have to rewrite every occurrence of these functions passing string literals otherwise). The module loader is only used on Python packages belonging to Mercurial. The loader works by tokenizing the loaded source and replacing "string" tokens if necessary. The modified token stream is untokenized back to source and loaded like normal. This does add some overhead. However, this all occurs before caching: .pyc files will cache the transformed version. This means the transformation penalty is only paid on first load. As the extensive inline comments explain, the presence of a custom source transformer invalidates assumptions made by Python's built-in bytecode caching mechanism. So, we have to wrap bytecode loading and writing and add an additional header to bytecode files to facilitate additional cache validation when the source transformations change in the future. There are still a few things this code doesn't handle well, namely support for zip files as module sources and for extensions. Since Mercurial doesn't officially support Python 3 yet, I'm inclined to leave these as to-do items: getting a basic module loading mechanism in place to unblock further Python 3 porting effort is more important than comprehensive module importing support. check-py3-compat.py has been updated to ignore frames. This is necessary because CPython has built-in code to strip frames from the built-in importer. When our custom code is present, this doesn't work and the frames get all messed up. The new code is not perfect. It works for now. But once you start chasing import failures you find some edge cases where the files aren't being printed properly. This only burdens people doing future Python 3 porting work so I'm inclined to punt on the issue: the most important thing is for the source transforming module loader to land. There was a bit of churn in test-check-py3-compat.t because we now trip up on str/unicode/bytes failures as a result of source transformation. This is unfortunate but what are you going to do. It's worth noting that other approaches were investigated. We considered using a custom file encoding whose decode() would apply source transformations. This was rejected because it would require each source file to declare its custom Mercurial encoding. Furthermore, when changing the source transformation we'd need to version bump the encoding name otherwise the module caching layer wouldn't know the .pyc file was invalidated. This would mean mass updating every file when the source transformation changes. Yuck. We also considered transforming at the AST layer. However, Python's ast module is quite gnarly and doing AST transforms is quite complicated, even for trivial rewrites. There are whole Python packages that exist to make AST transformations usable. AST transforms would still require import machinery, so the choice was basically to perform source-level, token-level, or ast-level transforms. Token-level rewriting delivers the metadata we need to rewrite intelligently while being relatively easy to understand. So it won. General consensus seems to be that this approach is the best available to avoid bulk rewriting of '' to b''. However, we aren't confident that this approach will never be a future maintenance burden. This approach does unblock serious Python 3 porting efforts. So we can re-evaulate once more work is done to support Python 3.
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"""Transform a stream of tokens from raw to Python 3.
It is called by the custom module loading machinery to rewrite
source/tokens between source decoding and compilation.
Returns a generator of possibly rewritten tokens.
The input token list may be mutated as part of processing. However,
its changes do not necessarily match the output token stream.
REMEMBER TO CHANGE ``BYTECODEHEADER`` WHEN CHANGING THIS FUNCTION
OR CACHED FILES WON'T GET INVALIDATED PROPERLY.
"""
futureimpline = False
# The following utility functions access the tokens list and i index of
# the for i, t enumerate(tokens) loop below
def _isop(j, *o):
"""Assert that tokens[j] is an OP with one of the given values"""
try:
return tokens[j].type == token.OP and tokens[j].string in o
except IndexError:
return False
def _findargnofcall(n):
"""Find arg n of a call expression (start at 0)
Returns index of the first token of that argument, or None if
there is not that many arguments.
Assumes that token[i + 1] is '('.
"""
nested = 0
for j in range(i + 2, len(tokens)):
if _isop(j, ')', ']', '}'):
# end of call, tuple, subscription or dict / set
nested -= 1
if nested < 0:
return None
elif n == 0:
# this is the starting position of arg
return j
elif _isop(j, '(', '[', '{'):
nested += 1
elif _isop(j, ',') and nested == 0:
n -= 1
return None
def _ensureunicode(j):
"""Make sure the token at j is a unicode string
This rewrites a string token to include the unicode literal prefix
so the string transformer won't add the byte prefix.
Ignores tokens that are not strings. Assumes bounds checking has
already been done.
"""
st = tokens[j]
if st.type == token.STRING and st.string.startswith(("'", '"')):
tokens[j] = st._replace(string='u%s' % st.string)
mercurial: implement a source transforming module loader on Python 3 The most painful part of ensuring Python code runs on both Python 2 and 3 is string encoding. Making this difficult is that string literals in Python 2 are bytes and string literals in Python 3 are unicode. So, to ensure consistent types are used, you have to use "from __future__ import unicode_literals" and/or prefix literals with their type (e.g. b'foo' or u'foo'). Nearly every string in Mercurial is bytes. So, to use the same source code on both Python 2 and 3 would require prefixing nearly every string literal with "b" to make it a byte literal. This is ugly and not something mpm is willing to do at this point in time. This patch implements a custom module loader on Python 3 that performs source transformation to convert string literals (unicode in Python 3) to byte literals. In effect, it changes Python 3's string literals to behave like Python 2's. In addition, the module loader recognizes well-known built-in functions (getattr, setattr, hasattr) and methods (encode and decode) that barf when bytes are used and prevents these from being rewritten. This prevents excessive source changes to accommodate this change (we would have to rewrite every occurrence of these functions passing string literals otherwise). The module loader is only used on Python packages belonging to Mercurial. The loader works by tokenizing the loaded source and replacing "string" tokens if necessary. The modified token stream is untokenized back to source and loaded like normal. This does add some overhead. However, this all occurs before caching: .pyc files will cache the transformed version. This means the transformation penalty is only paid on first load. As the extensive inline comments explain, the presence of a custom source transformer invalidates assumptions made by Python's built-in bytecode caching mechanism. So, we have to wrap bytecode loading and writing and add an additional header to bytecode files to facilitate additional cache validation when the source transformations change in the future. There are still a few things this code doesn't handle well, namely support for zip files as module sources and for extensions. Since Mercurial doesn't officially support Python 3 yet, I'm inclined to leave these as to-do items: getting a basic module loading mechanism in place to unblock further Python 3 porting effort is more important than comprehensive module importing support. check-py3-compat.py has been updated to ignore frames. This is necessary because CPython has built-in code to strip frames from the built-in importer. When our custom code is present, this doesn't work and the frames get all messed up. The new code is not perfect. It works for now. But once you start chasing import failures you find some edge cases where the files aren't being printed properly. This only burdens people doing future Python 3 porting work so I'm inclined to punt on the issue: the most important thing is for the source transforming module loader to land. There was a bit of churn in test-check-py3-compat.t because we now trip up on str/unicode/bytes failures as a result of source transformation. This is unfortunate but what are you going to do. It's worth noting that other approaches were investigated. We considered using a custom file encoding whose decode() would apply source transformations. This was rejected because it would require each source file to declare its custom Mercurial encoding. Furthermore, when changing the source transformation we'd need to version bump the encoding name otherwise the module caching layer wouldn't know the .pyc file was invalidated. This would mean mass updating every file when the source transformation changes. Yuck. We also considered transforming at the AST layer. However, Python's ast module is quite gnarly and doing AST transforms is quite complicated, even for trivial rewrites. There are whole Python packages that exist to make AST transformations usable. AST transforms would still require import machinery, so the choice was basically to perform source-level, token-level, or ast-level transforms. Token-level rewriting delivers the metadata we need to rewrite intelligently while being relatively easy to understand. So it won. General consensus seems to be that this approach is the best available to avoid bulk rewriting of '' to b''. However, we aren't confident that this approach will never be a future maintenance burden. This approach does unblock serious Python 3 porting efforts. So we can re-evaulate once more work is done to support Python 3.
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for i, t in enumerate(tokens):
# Convert most string literals to byte literals. String literals
# in Python 2 are bytes. String literals in Python 3 are unicode.
# Most strings in Mercurial are bytes and unicode strings are rare.
# Rather than rewrite all string literals to use ``b''`` to indicate
# byte strings, we apply this token transformer to insert the ``b``
# prefix nearly everywhere.
if t.type == token.STRING:
s = t.string
# Preserve docstrings as string literals. This is inconsistent
# with regular unprefixed strings. However, the
# "from __future__" parsing (which allows a module docstring to
# exist before it) doesn't properly handle the docstring if it
# is b''' prefixed, leading to a SyntaxError. We leave all
# docstrings as unprefixed to avoid this. This means Mercurial
# components touching docstrings need to handle unicode,
# unfortunately.
if s[0:3] in ("'''", '"""'):
yield t
continue
# If the first character isn't a quote, it is likely a string
# prefixing character (such as 'b', 'u', or 'r'. Ignore.
if s[0] not in ("'", '"'):
yield t
continue
# String literal. Prefix to make a b'' string.
yield t._replace(string='b%s' % t.string)
mercurial: implement a source transforming module loader on Python 3 The most painful part of ensuring Python code runs on both Python 2 and 3 is string encoding. Making this difficult is that string literals in Python 2 are bytes and string literals in Python 3 are unicode. So, to ensure consistent types are used, you have to use "from __future__ import unicode_literals" and/or prefix literals with their type (e.g. b'foo' or u'foo'). Nearly every string in Mercurial is bytes. So, to use the same source code on both Python 2 and 3 would require prefixing nearly every string literal with "b" to make it a byte literal. This is ugly and not something mpm is willing to do at this point in time. This patch implements a custom module loader on Python 3 that performs source transformation to convert string literals (unicode in Python 3) to byte literals. In effect, it changes Python 3's string literals to behave like Python 2's. In addition, the module loader recognizes well-known built-in functions (getattr, setattr, hasattr) and methods (encode and decode) that barf when bytes are used and prevents these from being rewritten. This prevents excessive source changes to accommodate this change (we would have to rewrite every occurrence of these functions passing string literals otherwise). The module loader is only used on Python packages belonging to Mercurial. The loader works by tokenizing the loaded source and replacing "string" tokens if necessary. The modified token stream is untokenized back to source and loaded like normal. This does add some overhead. However, this all occurs before caching: .pyc files will cache the transformed version. This means the transformation penalty is only paid on first load. As the extensive inline comments explain, the presence of a custom source transformer invalidates assumptions made by Python's built-in bytecode caching mechanism. So, we have to wrap bytecode loading and writing and add an additional header to bytecode files to facilitate additional cache validation when the source transformations change in the future. There are still a few things this code doesn't handle well, namely support for zip files as module sources and for extensions. Since Mercurial doesn't officially support Python 3 yet, I'm inclined to leave these as to-do items: getting a basic module loading mechanism in place to unblock further Python 3 porting effort is more important than comprehensive module importing support. check-py3-compat.py has been updated to ignore frames. This is necessary because CPython has built-in code to strip frames from the built-in importer. When our custom code is present, this doesn't work and the frames get all messed up. The new code is not perfect. It works for now. But once you start chasing import failures you find some edge cases where the files aren't being printed properly. This only burdens people doing future Python 3 porting work so I'm inclined to punt on the issue: the most important thing is for the source transforming module loader to land. There was a bit of churn in test-check-py3-compat.t because we now trip up on str/unicode/bytes failures as a result of source transformation. This is unfortunate but what are you going to do. It's worth noting that other approaches were investigated. We considered using a custom file encoding whose decode() would apply source transformations. This was rejected because it would require each source file to declare its custom Mercurial encoding. Furthermore, when changing the source transformation we'd need to version bump the encoding name otherwise the module caching layer wouldn't know the .pyc file was invalidated. This would mean mass updating every file when the source transformation changes. Yuck. We also considered transforming at the AST layer. However, Python's ast module is quite gnarly and doing AST transforms is quite complicated, even for trivial rewrites. There are whole Python packages that exist to make AST transformations usable. AST transforms would still require import machinery, so the choice was basically to perform source-level, token-level, or ast-level transforms. Token-level rewriting delivers the metadata we need to rewrite intelligently while being relatively easy to understand. So it won. General consensus seems to be that this approach is the best available to avoid bulk rewriting of '' to b''. However, we aren't confident that this approach will never be a future maintenance burden. This approach does unblock serious Python 3 porting efforts. So we can re-evaulate once more work is done to support Python 3.
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continue
# Insert compatibility imports at "from __future__ import" line.
# No '\n' should be added to preserve line numbers.
if (t.type == token.NAME and t.string == 'import' and
all(u.type == token.NAME for u in tokens[i - 2:i]) and
[u.string for u in tokens[i - 2:i]] == ['from', '__future__']):
futureimpline = True
if t.type == token.NEWLINE and futureimpline:
futureimpline = False
if fullname == 'mercurial.pycompat':
yield t
continue
r, c = t.start
l = (b'; from mercurial.pycompat import '
b'delattr, getattr, hasattr, setattr, xrange, '
b'open, unicode\n')
for u in tokenize.tokenize(io.BytesIO(l).readline):
if u.type in (tokenize.ENCODING, token.ENDMARKER):
continue
yield u._replace(
start=(r, c + u.start[1]), end=(r, c + u.end[1]))
continue
mercurial: implement a source transforming module loader on Python 3 The most painful part of ensuring Python code runs on both Python 2 and 3 is string encoding. Making this difficult is that string literals in Python 2 are bytes and string literals in Python 3 are unicode. So, to ensure consistent types are used, you have to use "from __future__ import unicode_literals" and/or prefix literals with their type (e.g. b'foo' or u'foo'). Nearly every string in Mercurial is bytes. So, to use the same source code on both Python 2 and 3 would require prefixing nearly every string literal with "b" to make it a byte literal. This is ugly and not something mpm is willing to do at this point in time. This patch implements a custom module loader on Python 3 that performs source transformation to convert string literals (unicode in Python 3) to byte literals. In effect, it changes Python 3's string literals to behave like Python 2's. In addition, the module loader recognizes well-known built-in functions (getattr, setattr, hasattr) and methods (encode and decode) that barf when bytes are used and prevents these from being rewritten. This prevents excessive source changes to accommodate this change (we would have to rewrite every occurrence of these functions passing string literals otherwise). The module loader is only used on Python packages belonging to Mercurial. The loader works by tokenizing the loaded source and replacing "string" tokens if necessary. The modified token stream is untokenized back to source and loaded like normal. This does add some overhead. However, this all occurs before caching: .pyc files will cache the transformed version. This means the transformation penalty is only paid on first load. As the extensive inline comments explain, the presence of a custom source transformer invalidates assumptions made by Python's built-in bytecode caching mechanism. So, we have to wrap bytecode loading and writing and add an additional header to bytecode files to facilitate additional cache validation when the source transformations change in the future. There are still a few things this code doesn't handle well, namely support for zip files as module sources and for extensions. Since Mercurial doesn't officially support Python 3 yet, I'm inclined to leave these as to-do items: getting a basic module loading mechanism in place to unblock further Python 3 porting effort is more important than comprehensive module importing support. check-py3-compat.py has been updated to ignore frames. This is necessary because CPython has built-in code to strip frames from the built-in importer. When our custom code is present, this doesn't work and the frames get all messed up. The new code is not perfect. It works for now. But once you start chasing import failures you find some edge cases where the files aren't being printed properly. This only burdens people doing future Python 3 porting work so I'm inclined to punt on the issue: the most important thing is for the source transforming module loader to land. There was a bit of churn in test-check-py3-compat.t because we now trip up on str/unicode/bytes failures as a result of source transformation. This is unfortunate but what are you going to do. It's worth noting that other approaches were investigated. We considered using a custom file encoding whose decode() would apply source transformations. This was rejected because it would require each source file to declare its custom Mercurial encoding. Furthermore, when changing the source transformation we'd need to version bump the encoding name otherwise the module caching layer wouldn't know the .pyc file was invalidated. This would mean mass updating every file when the source transformation changes. Yuck. We also considered transforming at the AST layer. However, Python's ast module is quite gnarly and doing AST transforms is quite complicated, even for trivial rewrites. There are whole Python packages that exist to make AST transformations usable. AST transforms would still require import machinery, so the choice was basically to perform source-level, token-level, or ast-level transforms. Token-level rewriting delivers the metadata we need to rewrite intelligently while being relatively easy to understand. So it won. General consensus seems to be that this approach is the best available to avoid bulk rewriting of '' to b''. However, we aren't confident that this approach will never be a future maintenance burden. This approach does unblock serious Python 3 porting efforts. So we can re-evaulate once more work is done to support Python 3.
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# This looks like a function call.
if t.type == token.NAME and _isop(i + 1, '('):
mercurial: implement a source transforming module loader on Python 3 The most painful part of ensuring Python code runs on both Python 2 and 3 is string encoding. Making this difficult is that string literals in Python 2 are bytes and string literals in Python 3 are unicode. So, to ensure consistent types are used, you have to use "from __future__ import unicode_literals" and/or prefix literals with their type (e.g. b'foo' or u'foo'). Nearly every string in Mercurial is bytes. So, to use the same source code on both Python 2 and 3 would require prefixing nearly every string literal with "b" to make it a byte literal. This is ugly and not something mpm is willing to do at this point in time. This patch implements a custom module loader on Python 3 that performs source transformation to convert string literals (unicode in Python 3) to byte literals. In effect, it changes Python 3's string literals to behave like Python 2's. In addition, the module loader recognizes well-known built-in functions (getattr, setattr, hasattr) and methods (encode and decode) that barf when bytes are used and prevents these from being rewritten. This prevents excessive source changes to accommodate this change (we would have to rewrite every occurrence of these functions passing string literals otherwise). The module loader is only used on Python packages belonging to Mercurial. The loader works by tokenizing the loaded source and replacing "string" tokens if necessary. The modified token stream is untokenized back to source and loaded like normal. This does add some overhead. However, this all occurs before caching: .pyc files will cache the transformed version. This means the transformation penalty is only paid on first load. As the extensive inline comments explain, the presence of a custom source transformer invalidates assumptions made by Python's built-in bytecode caching mechanism. So, we have to wrap bytecode loading and writing and add an additional header to bytecode files to facilitate additional cache validation when the source transformations change in the future. There are still a few things this code doesn't handle well, namely support for zip files as module sources and for extensions. Since Mercurial doesn't officially support Python 3 yet, I'm inclined to leave these as to-do items: getting a basic module loading mechanism in place to unblock further Python 3 porting effort is more important than comprehensive module importing support. check-py3-compat.py has been updated to ignore frames. This is necessary because CPython has built-in code to strip frames from the built-in importer. When our custom code is present, this doesn't work and the frames get all messed up. The new code is not perfect. It works for now. But once you start chasing import failures you find some edge cases where the files aren't being printed properly. This only burdens people doing future Python 3 porting work so I'm inclined to punt on the issue: the most important thing is for the source transforming module loader to land. There was a bit of churn in test-check-py3-compat.t because we now trip up on str/unicode/bytes failures as a result of source transformation. This is unfortunate but what are you going to do. It's worth noting that other approaches were investigated. We considered using a custom file encoding whose decode() would apply source transformations. This was rejected because it would require each source file to declare its custom Mercurial encoding. Furthermore, when changing the source transformation we'd need to version bump the encoding name otherwise the module caching layer wouldn't know the .pyc file was invalidated. This would mean mass updating every file when the source transformation changes. Yuck. We also considered transforming at the AST layer. However, Python's ast module is quite gnarly and doing AST transforms is quite complicated, even for trivial rewrites. There are whole Python packages that exist to make AST transformations usable. AST transforms would still require import machinery, so the choice was basically to perform source-level, token-level, or ast-level transforms. Token-level rewriting delivers the metadata we need to rewrite intelligently while being relatively easy to understand. So it won. General consensus seems to be that this approach is the best available to avoid bulk rewriting of '' to b''. However, we aren't confident that this approach will never be a future maintenance burden. This approach does unblock serious Python 3 porting efforts. So we can re-evaulate once more work is done to support Python 3.
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fn = t.string
# *attr() builtins don't accept byte strings to 2nd argument.
if (fn in ('getattr', 'setattr', 'hasattr', 'safehasattr') and
not _isop(i - 1, '.')):
arg1idx = _findargnofcall(1)
if arg1idx is not None:
_ensureunicode(arg1idx)
mercurial: implement a source transforming module loader on Python 3 The most painful part of ensuring Python code runs on both Python 2 and 3 is string encoding. Making this difficult is that string literals in Python 2 are bytes and string literals in Python 3 are unicode. So, to ensure consistent types are used, you have to use "from __future__ import unicode_literals" and/or prefix literals with their type (e.g. b'foo' or u'foo'). Nearly every string in Mercurial is bytes. So, to use the same source code on both Python 2 and 3 would require prefixing nearly every string literal with "b" to make it a byte literal. This is ugly and not something mpm is willing to do at this point in time. This patch implements a custom module loader on Python 3 that performs source transformation to convert string literals (unicode in Python 3) to byte literals. In effect, it changes Python 3's string literals to behave like Python 2's. In addition, the module loader recognizes well-known built-in functions (getattr, setattr, hasattr) and methods (encode and decode) that barf when bytes are used and prevents these from being rewritten. This prevents excessive source changes to accommodate this change (we would have to rewrite every occurrence of these functions passing string literals otherwise). The module loader is only used on Python packages belonging to Mercurial. The loader works by tokenizing the loaded source and replacing "string" tokens if necessary. The modified token stream is untokenized back to source and loaded like normal. This does add some overhead. However, this all occurs before caching: .pyc files will cache the transformed version. This means the transformation penalty is only paid on first load. As the extensive inline comments explain, the presence of a custom source transformer invalidates assumptions made by Python's built-in bytecode caching mechanism. So, we have to wrap bytecode loading and writing and add an additional header to bytecode files to facilitate additional cache validation when the source transformations change in the future. There are still a few things this code doesn't handle well, namely support for zip files as module sources and for extensions. Since Mercurial doesn't officially support Python 3 yet, I'm inclined to leave these as to-do items: getting a basic module loading mechanism in place to unblock further Python 3 porting effort is more important than comprehensive module importing support. check-py3-compat.py has been updated to ignore frames. This is necessary because CPython has built-in code to strip frames from the built-in importer. When our custom code is present, this doesn't work and the frames get all messed up. The new code is not perfect. It works for now. But once you start chasing import failures you find some edge cases where the files aren't being printed properly. This only burdens people doing future Python 3 porting work so I'm inclined to punt on the issue: the most important thing is for the source transforming module loader to land. There was a bit of churn in test-check-py3-compat.t because we now trip up on str/unicode/bytes failures as a result of source transformation. This is unfortunate but what are you going to do. It's worth noting that other approaches were investigated. We considered using a custom file encoding whose decode() would apply source transformations. This was rejected because it would require each source file to declare its custom Mercurial encoding. Furthermore, when changing the source transformation we'd need to version bump the encoding name otherwise the module caching layer wouldn't know the .pyc file was invalidated. This would mean mass updating every file when the source transformation changes. Yuck. We also considered transforming at the AST layer. However, Python's ast module is quite gnarly and doing AST transforms is quite complicated, even for trivial rewrites. There are whole Python packages that exist to make AST transformations usable. AST transforms would still require import machinery, so the choice was basically to perform source-level, token-level, or ast-level transforms. Token-level rewriting delivers the metadata we need to rewrite intelligently while being relatively easy to understand. So it won. General consensus seems to be that this approach is the best available to avoid bulk rewriting of '' to b''. However, we aren't confident that this approach will never be a future maintenance burden. This approach does unblock serious Python 3 porting efforts. So we can re-evaulate once more work is done to support Python 3.
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# .encode() and .decode() on str/bytes/unicode don't accept
# byte strings on Python 3.
elif fn in ('encode', 'decode') and _isop(i - 1, '.'):
for argn in range(2):
argidx = _findargnofcall(argn)
if argidx is not None:
_ensureunicode(argidx)
# It changes iteritems/values to items/values as they are not
# present in Python 3 world.
elif fn in ('iteritems', 'itervalues'):
yield t._replace(string=fn[4:])
continue
mercurial: implement a source transforming module loader on Python 3 The most painful part of ensuring Python code runs on both Python 2 and 3 is string encoding. Making this difficult is that string literals in Python 2 are bytes and string literals in Python 3 are unicode. So, to ensure consistent types are used, you have to use "from __future__ import unicode_literals" and/or prefix literals with their type (e.g. b'foo' or u'foo'). Nearly every string in Mercurial is bytes. So, to use the same source code on both Python 2 and 3 would require prefixing nearly every string literal with "b" to make it a byte literal. This is ugly and not something mpm is willing to do at this point in time. This patch implements a custom module loader on Python 3 that performs source transformation to convert string literals (unicode in Python 3) to byte literals. In effect, it changes Python 3's string literals to behave like Python 2's. In addition, the module loader recognizes well-known built-in functions (getattr, setattr, hasattr) and methods (encode and decode) that barf when bytes are used and prevents these from being rewritten. This prevents excessive source changes to accommodate this change (we would have to rewrite every occurrence of these functions passing string literals otherwise). The module loader is only used on Python packages belonging to Mercurial. The loader works by tokenizing the loaded source and replacing "string" tokens if necessary. The modified token stream is untokenized back to source and loaded like normal. This does add some overhead. However, this all occurs before caching: .pyc files will cache the transformed version. This means the transformation penalty is only paid on first load. As the extensive inline comments explain, the presence of a custom source transformer invalidates assumptions made by Python's built-in bytecode caching mechanism. So, we have to wrap bytecode loading and writing and add an additional header to bytecode files to facilitate additional cache validation when the source transformations change in the future. There are still a few things this code doesn't handle well, namely support for zip files as module sources and for extensions. Since Mercurial doesn't officially support Python 3 yet, I'm inclined to leave these as to-do items: getting a basic module loading mechanism in place to unblock further Python 3 porting effort is more important than comprehensive module importing support. check-py3-compat.py has been updated to ignore frames. This is necessary because CPython has built-in code to strip frames from the built-in importer. When our custom code is present, this doesn't work and the frames get all messed up. The new code is not perfect. It works for now. But once you start chasing import failures you find some edge cases where the files aren't being printed properly. This only burdens people doing future Python 3 porting work so I'm inclined to punt on the issue: the most important thing is for the source transforming module loader to land. There was a bit of churn in test-check-py3-compat.t because we now trip up on str/unicode/bytes failures as a result of source transformation. This is unfortunate but what are you going to do. It's worth noting that other approaches were investigated. We considered using a custom file encoding whose decode() would apply source transformations. This was rejected because it would require each source file to declare its custom Mercurial encoding. Furthermore, when changing the source transformation we'd need to version bump the encoding name otherwise the module caching layer wouldn't know the .pyc file was invalidated. This would mean mass updating every file when the source transformation changes. Yuck. We also considered transforming at the AST layer. However, Python's ast module is quite gnarly and doing AST transforms is quite complicated, even for trivial rewrites. There are whole Python packages that exist to make AST transformations usable. AST transforms would still require import machinery, so the choice was basically to perform source-level, token-level, or ast-level transforms. Token-level rewriting delivers the metadata we need to rewrite intelligently while being relatively easy to understand. So it won. General consensus seems to be that this approach is the best available to avoid bulk rewriting of '' to b''. However, we aren't confident that this approach will never be a future maintenance burden. This approach does unblock serious Python 3 porting efforts. So we can re-evaulate once more work is done to support Python 3.
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# Emit unmodified token.
yield t
# Header to add to bytecode files. This MUST be changed when
# ``replacetoken`` or any mechanism that changes semantics of module
# loading is changed. Otherwise cached bytecode may get loaded without
# the new transformation mechanisms applied.
BYTECODEHEADER = b'HG\x00\x0a'
mercurial: implement a source transforming module loader on Python 3 The most painful part of ensuring Python code runs on both Python 2 and 3 is string encoding. Making this difficult is that string literals in Python 2 are bytes and string literals in Python 3 are unicode. So, to ensure consistent types are used, you have to use "from __future__ import unicode_literals" and/or prefix literals with their type (e.g. b'foo' or u'foo'). Nearly every string in Mercurial is bytes. So, to use the same source code on both Python 2 and 3 would require prefixing nearly every string literal with "b" to make it a byte literal. This is ugly and not something mpm is willing to do at this point in time. This patch implements a custom module loader on Python 3 that performs source transformation to convert string literals (unicode in Python 3) to byte literals. In effect, it changes Python 3's string literals to behave like Python 2's. In addition, the module loader recognizes well-known built-in functions (getattr, setattr, hasattr) and methods (encode and decode) that barf when bytes are used and prevents these from being rewritten. This prevents excessive source changes to accommodate this change (we would have to rewrite every occurrence of these functions passing string literals otherwise). The module loader is only used on Python packages belonging to Mercurial. The loader works by tokenizing the loaded source and replacing "string" tokens if necessary. The modified token stream is untokenized back to source and loaded like normal. This does add some overhead. However, this all occurs before caching: .pyc files will cache the transformed version. This means the transformation penalty is only paid on first load. As the extensive inline comments explain, the presence of a custom source transformer invalidates assumptions made by Python's built-in bytecode caching mechanism. So, we have to wrap bytecode loading and writing and add an additional header to bytecode files to facilitate additional cache validation when the source transformations change in the future. There are still a few things this code doesn't handle well, namely support for zip files as module sources and for extensions. Since Mercurial doesn't officially support Python 3 yet, I'm inclined to leave these as to-do items: getting a basic module loading mechanism in place to unblock further Python 3 porting effort is more important than comprehensive module importing support. check-py3-compat.py has been updated to ignore frames. This is necessary because CPython has built-in code to strip frames from the built-in importer. When our custom code is present, this doesn't work and the frames get all messed up. The new code is not perfect. It works for now. But once you start chasing import failures you find some edge cases where the files aren't being printed properly. This only burdens people doing future Python 3 porting work so I'm inclined to punt on the issue: the most important thing is for the source transforming module loader to land. There was a bit of churn in test-check-py3-compat.t because we now trip up on str/unicode/bytes failures as a result of source transformation. This is unfortunate but what are you going to do. It's worth noting that other approaches were investigated. We considered using a custom file encoding whose decode() would apply source transformations. This was rejected because it would require each source file to declare its custom Mercurial encoding. Furthermore, when changing the source transformation we'd need to version bump the encoding name otherwise the module caching layer wouldn't know the .pyc file was invalidated. This would mean mass updating every file when the source transformation changes. Yuck. We also considered transforming at the AST layer. However, Python's ast module is quite gnarly and doing AST transforms is quite complicated, even for trivial rewrites. There are whole Python packages that exist to make AST transformations usable. AST transforms would still require import machinery, so the choice was basically to perform source-level, token-level, or ast-level transforms. Token-level rewriting delivers the metadata we need to rewrite intelligently while being relatively easy to understand. So it won. General consensus seems to be that this approach is the best available to avoid bulk rewriting of '' to b''. However, we aren't confident that this approach will never be a future maintenance burden. This approach does unblock serious Python 3 porting efforts. So we can re-evaulate once more work is done to support Python 3.
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class hgloader(importlib.machinery.SourceFileLoader):
"""Custom module loader that transforms source code.
When the source code is converted to a code object, we transform
certain patterns to be Python 3 compatible. This allows us to write code
that is natively Python 2 and compatible with Python 3 without
making the code excessively ugly.
We do this by transforming the token stream between parse and compile.
Implementing transformations invalidates caching assumptions made
by the built-in importer. The built-in importer stores a header on
saved bytecode files indicating the Python/bytecode version. If the
version changes, the cached bytecode is ignored. The Mercurial
transformations could change at any time. This means we need to check
that cached bytecode was generated with the current transformation
code or there could be a mismatch between cached bytecode and what
would be generated from this class.
We supplement the bytecode caching layer by wrapping ``get_data``
and ``set_data``. These functions are called when the
``SourceFileLoader`` retrieves and saves bytecode cache files,
respectively. We simply add an additional header on the file. As
long as the version in this file is changed when semantics change,
cached bytecode should be invalidated when transformations change.
The added header has the form ``HG<VERSION>``. That is a literal
``HG`` with 2 binary bytes indicating the transformation version.
"""
def get_data(self, path):
data = super(hgloader, self).get_data(path)
if not path.endswith(tuple(importlib.machinery.BYTECODE_SUFFIXES)):
return data
# There should be a header indicating the Mercurial transformation
# version. If it doesn't exist or doesn't match the current version,
# we raise an OSError because that is what
# ``SourceFileLoader.get_code()`` expects when loading bytecode
# paths to indicate the cached file is "bad."
if data[0:2] != b'HG':
raise OSError('no hg header')
if data[0:4] != BYTECODEHEADER:
raise OSError('hg header version mismatch')
return data[4:]
def set_data(self, path, data, *args, **kwargs):
if path.endswith(tuple(importlib.machinery.BYTECODE_SUFFIXES)):
data = BYTECODEHEADER + data
return super(hgloader, self).set_data(path, data, *args, **kwargs)
def source_to_code(self, data, path):
"""Perform token transformation before compilation."""
buf = io.BytesIO(data)
tokens = tokenize.tokenize(buf.readline)
data = tokenize.untokenize(replacetokens(list(tokens), self.name))
mercurial: implement a source transforming module loader on Python 3 The most painful part of ensuring Python code runs on both Python 2 and 3 is string encoding. Making this difficult is that string literals in Python 2 are bytes and string literals in Python 3 are unicode. So, to ensure consistent types are used, you have to use "from __future__ import unicode_literals" and/or prefix literals with their type (e.g. b'foo' or u'foo'). Nearly every string in Mercurial is bytes. So, to use the same source code on both Python 2 and 3 would require prefixing nearly every string literal with "b" to make it a byte literal. This is ugly and not something mpm is willing to do at this point in time. This patch implements a custom module loader on Python 3 that performs source transformation to convert string literals (unicode in Python 3) to byte literals. In effect, it changes Python 3's string literals to behave like Python 2's. In addition, the module loader recognizes well-known built-in functions (getattr, setattr, hasattr) and methods (encode and decode) that barf when bytes are used and prevents these from being rewritten. This prevents excessive source changes to accommodate this change (we would have to rewrite every occurrence of these functions passing string literals otherwise). The module loader is only used on Python packages belonging to Mercurial. The loader works by tokenizing the loaded source and replacing "string" tokens if necessary. The modified token stream is untokenized back to source and loaded like normal. This does add some overhead. However, this all occurs before caching: .pyc files will cache the transformed version. This means the transformation penalty is only paid on first load. As the extensive inline comments explain, the presence of a custom source transformer invalidates assumptions made by Python's built-in bytecode caching mechanism. So, we have to wrap bytecode loading and writing and add an additional header to bytecode files to facilitate additional cache validation when the source transformations change in the future. There are still a few things this code doesn't handle well, namely support for zip files as module sources and for extensions. Since Mercurial doesn't officially support Python 3 yet, I'm inclined to leave these as to-do items: getting a basic module loading mechanism in place to unblock further Python 3 porting effort is more important than comprehensive module importing support. check-py3-compat.py has been updated to ignore frames. This is necessary because CPython has built-in code to strip frames from the built-in importer. When our custom code is present, this doesn't work and the frames get all messed up. The new code is not perfect. It works for now. But once you start chasing import failures you find some edge cases where the files aren't being printed properly. This only burdens people doing future Python 3 porting work so I'm inclined to punt on the issue: the most important thing is for the source transforming module loader to land. There was a bit of churn in test-check-py3-compat.t because we now trip up on str/unicode/bytes failures as a result of source transformation. This is unfortunate but what are you going to do. It's worth noting that other approaches were investigated. We considered using a custom file encoding whose decode() would apply source transformations. This was rejected because it would require each source file to declare its custom Mercurial encoding. Furthermore, when changing the source transformation we'd need to version bump the encoding name otherwise the module caching layer wouldn't know the .pyc file was invalidated. This would mean mass updating every file when the source transformation changes. Yuck. We also considered transforming at the AST layer. However, Python's ast module is quite gnarly and doing AST transforms is quite complicated, even for trivial rewrites. There are whole Python packages that exist to make AST transformations usable. AST transforms would still require import machinery, so the choice was basically to perform source-level, token-level, or ast-level transforms. Token-level rewriting delivers the metadata we need to rewrite intelligently while being relatively easy to understand. So it won. General consensus seems to be that this approach is the best available to avoid bulk rewriting of '' to b''. However, we aren't confident that this approach will never be a future maintenance burden. This approach does unblock serious Python 3 porting efforts. So we can re-evaulate once more work is done to support Python 3.
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# Python's built-in importer strips frames from exceptions raised
# for this code. Unfortunately, that mechanism isn't extensible
# and our frame will be blamed for the import failure. There
# are extremely hacky ways to do frame stripping. We haven't
# implemented them because they are very ugly.
return super(hgloader, self).source_to_code(data, path)
# We automagically register our custom importer as a side-effect of
# loading. This is necessary to ensure that any entry points are able
# to import mercurial.* modules without having to perform this
# registration themselves.
if not any(isinstance(x, hgpathentryfinder) for x in sys.meta_path):
# meta_path is used before any implicit finders and before sys.path.
sys.meta_path.insert(0, hgpathentryfinder())