New submission from Brian Sutherland:
When running Python inside PostgreSQL using plpython on OSX 10.7.5 I started
coming across very strange and apparently random ImportErrors. For example,
failing to find the stat module while importing site:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/Users/jinty/.buildout/eggs/setuptools-0.6c11-py2.7.egg/site.py",
line 73, in <module>
__boot()
File "/Users/jinty/.buildout/eggs/setuptools-0.6c11-py2.7.egg/site.py",
line 2, in __boot
import sys, imp, os, os.path
File "/Users/jinty/src/mp/lib/python2.7/os.py", line 49, in <module>
import posixpath as path
File "/Users/jinty/src/mp/lib/python2.7/posixpath.py", line 15, in
<module>
import stat
ImportError: No module named stat
I debugged this by using PYTHONVERBOSE and modifying import.c with the attached
patch. I found that stat.py was not found because fopen() failed with "Too many
open files". There were not enough open files because OSX has insanely low
limits and PostgreSQL was using a large chunk of that. ulimit -n 4096 resolved
the errors. I spent a LOT of time trying to figure that out (see the thread at
http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/[email protected]).
The bug I wish to report is that the real error (Too many open files) is hidden
by "ImportError: No module named stat". For anyone who does not want to modify
import.c and rebuild python, it is almost impossible to figure out what is
really happening.
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files: patch-Python-import.c.diff
keywords: patch
messages: 180092
nosy: jinty
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: ImportError hides real error when there too many open files during an
import
type: behavior
versions: Python 2.7
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file28753/patch-Python-import.c.diff
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