[issue19413] Reload semantics changed unexpectedly in Python 3.3

[Nick Coghlan]

Nick Coghlan added the comment:

Failing test case showing that Python 3.3 can't reload a module that is converted to a package behind importlib's back (I like this better than the purely introspection based tests, since it shows a real, albeit obscure, regression due to this behavioural change):

$ ./broken_reload.py 
E
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ERROR: test_module_to_package (__main__.TestBadReload)
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./broken_reload.py", line 28, in test_module_to_package
    imp.reload(mod)
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.3/imp.py", line 271, in reload
    return module.__loader__.load_module(name)
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 586, in _check_name_wrapper
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1024, in load_module
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1005, in load_module
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 562, in module_for_loader_wrapper
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 855, in _load_module
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 950, in get_code
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1043, in path_stats
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/tmp/tmp_n48mm/to_be_reloaded.py'

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Ran 1 test in 0.002s

FAILED (errors=1)

Interactive session showing that import.c didn't have this problem, since it reran the whole search (foo is just a toy module I had lying around in my play directory):

$ python
Python 2.7.5 (default, Oct  8 2013, 12:19:40) 
[GCC 4.8.1 20130603 (Red Hat 4.8.1-1)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import foo
Hello
>>> foo.__file__
'foo.py'
>>> import os
>>> os.mkdir("foo")
>>> os.rename('foo.py', 'foo/__init__.py')
>>> reload(foo)
Hello
<module 'foo' from 'foo/__init__.py'>
>>> foo.__file__
'foo/__init__.py'
>>>

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Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file32433/broken_reload.py

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