[Ironpython-users] Differences with pyc-compiled assemblies?

[Jeff Hardy]

On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 2:03 AM, Nicholas Devenish <misnomer at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Jeff again,
>
>> In inspect.py, just before line 758, it looks at co.co_argcount and
>> co.co_varnames and assumes that they are the same length, but my guess
>> is that they might not be when compiled with pyc. If you can figure
>> out exactly what getargspec is being called on, that might help make a
>> simpler reproduction that I can work off of.
>
>
> I spent some time this morning trying to reduce down to a standalone test case; I've got it down to the following, and don't understand what is going wrong so can't work out what else to remove; sorry about the large chain of functions, but it seems to somehow be involved. I hope it is helpful:
>
>> from functools import update_wrapper
>> import inspect
>>
>> def decorator(target):
>>     def decorate(fn):
>>         return inspect.getargspec(fn)
>>     return update_wrapper(decorate, target)
>>
>> def _decorate_with_warning(func):
>>     @decorator
>>     def warned(fn):
>>       pass
>>     warned(func)
>>
>> @_decorate_with_warning
>> def execute_at(self, event_name, target):
>>     def call_event(target, connection):
>>         if self._somefun(event_name, target, connection):
>>             pass
>
> As before, it runs fine as a standalone script
> $ ipy testipy.py
>
> But compiling with:
>> pyc /out:TestIPy testily.py
>> ipy
>>> import clr
>>> clr.AddReferenceToFileAndPath("TestIPy.dll")
>>> import testipy
>
> Gives the same traceback:
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>   File "runtest.py", line 3, in <module>
>>   File "testipy", line 3, in <module>
>>   File "testipy", line 14, in _decorate_with_warning
>>   File "testipy", line 7, in decorate
>>   File "c:\Program Files\IronPython 2.7\Lib\inspect.py", line 820, in getargspec
>>   File "c:\Program Files\IronPython 2.7\Lib\inspect.py", line 762, in getargs
>> IndexError: index out of range: 2
>
> I hope this is helpful!

Very, thank you. Do you think you could open an issue
(http://ironpython.codeplex.com/WorkItem/Create) and put the smaller
repro in it? I'll try to take a look at it soon because I'm working on
the compiler code anyway, but at least with an issue it won't get
completely forgotten.

- Jeff