[pypy-dev] _init_posix() not ever called?

[M A]

> On Sep 21, 2021, at 4:28 AM, Armin Rigo <armin.rigo at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, 20 Sept 2021 at 22:33, M A <teammember0x01 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi I was working in the file lib-python/2.7/distutils/sysconfig_pypy.py, on the function _init_posix(). I placed print() statements in the function to indicate when this function is called. After fully building pypy the print() statements were never called. I then used grep to try to find out where this function is called in the source code. I ran this command: grep "_init_posix()" -r *. After looking at the results it looks like this function is never called by anything. Why do we have it? More importantly can we delete it?
> 
> It is called from the same file by these line:
> 
>        func = globals().get("_init_" + os.name)
>        if func:
>            func()
> 
> If you don't see print statements at runtime, then it might be the
> case that it's called at translation time instead.  The module's state
> with _init_posix() already called would then get frozen inside the
> translated pypy.
> 
> 
> A bientôt,
> Armin

Thank you Armin. So how do I make this function run again? For most projects I would be something like "make clean" to remove all the object files and start from the beginning. Does PyPy have anything like this?