PEP for -m switch for extension modules#266
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| the PEP 489 multi-phase initialization. | ||
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| With this, a multi-phase initialization enabled module can be run | ||
| using following syntax:: |
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| Python's ``-m`` option. | ||
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| The technical groundwork to make this possible has been done for PEP 489, | ||
| and enabling the ``-m`` option is listed in in that PEP's |
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| The module specified by ``-m`` is not imported normally. | ||
| Instead, it is executed in the namespace of the ``__main__`` module, | ||
| which is created quite since early in interpreter initialization. |
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| While PEP 489 was designed to make these changes generally possible, | ||
| it's necessary to decouple module discovery, creation, and initialization | ||
| steps for extension modules, so that anothe module can be used instead of |
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| In the multi-phase initialization case, the ``PyModuleDef`` and the module to | ||
| be initialized will be passed to a new function, ``PyModule_ExecInModule``. | ||
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| This function raise ``ImportError`` if the ``PyModuleDef`` specifies |
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This idea was discussed on import-sig: https://mail.python.org/pipermail/import-sig/2017-May/001072.html