Stray .pyc files from tests

Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek zbyszek at in.waw.pl
Tue Oct 20 22:50:34 UTC 2015


On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 10:11:12PM -0600, Orion Poplawski wrote:
> I just ran into an issue with a package under review where stray
> python2 .pyc files were getting put into the python3_sitelib
> directory.  The tests were run with:
> 
> PYTHONPATH=%{buildroot}%{python3_sitelib} py.test-%{python3_version} -vv
> 
> and one of the tests ended up calling /usr/bin/python.setup.py
> --version triggering the loading and byte-compiling of the installed
> module.  I don't know if this is common issue or not (I suspect
> not).
I think it happens regularly:

$ dnf whatprovides '/usr/lib64/python3.4/site-packages/*'|grep fc|cut -d' ' -f1 > /tmp/list
$ dnf repoquery -l $(cat /tmp/list)|grep -v __pycache__|grep 'python3.4.*py[co]$'|grep -v doc
/usr/lib64/python3.4/site-packages/arc/__init__.pyc
/usr/lib64/python3.4/site-packages/arc/__init__.pyo
/usr/lib64/python3.4/site-packages/arc/common.pyc
/usr/lib64/python3.4/site-packages/arc/common.pyo
/usr/lib64/python3.4/site-packages/arc/communication.pyc
/usr/lib64/python3.4/site-packages/arc/communication.pyo
/usr/lib64/python3.4/site-packages/arc/compute.pyc
/usr/lib64/python3.4/site-packages/arc/compute.pyo
/usr/lib64/python3.4/site-packages/arc/credential.pyc
/usr/lib64/python3.4/site-packages/arc/credential.pyo
/usr/lib64/python3.4/site-packages/arc/data.pyc
/usr/lib64/python3.4/site-packages/arc/data.pyo
/usr/lib64/python3.4/site-packages/arc/delegation.pyc
/usr/lib64/python3.4/site-packages/arc/delegation.pyo
/usr/lib64/python3.4/site-packages/arc/loader.pyc
/usr/lib64/python3.4/site-packages/arc/loader.pyo
/usr/lib64/python3.4/site-packages/arc/message.pyc
/usr/lib64/python3.4/site-packages/arc/message.pyo
/usr/lib64/python3.4/site-packages/arc/security.pyc
/usr/lib64/python3.4/site-packages/arc/security.pyo
/usr/lib64/python3.4/site-packages/cairo/__init__.pyc
/usr/lib64/python3.4/site-packages/cairo/__init__.pyo

I filed
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1273661
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1273662
but since this shouldn't cause any problems, it's a minor
issue. Probably not worth an automated check. There's some more
.py[co] files in documentation directories, which are probably not
useful either.

Zbyszek


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