> On Sep 21, 2021, at 4:28 AM, Armin Rigo <armin.r...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, 20 Sept 2021 at 22:33, M A <teammember0...@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?
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