New submission from Antony Lee:
The docs of pkgutil.get_data say "The resource argument should be in the form
of a relative filename, using / as the path separator. The parent directory
name .. is not allowed, and nor is a rooted name (starting with a /)."
In fact (on Python 3.5 at least):
* pkgutil.get_data("logging", "/__init__.py") works, but simply chops off the
first slash, returning the contents of the stdlib's logging/__init__.py.
* pkgutil.get_data("logging", "../re.py") works, returning the contents of the
stdlib's re.py.
People who actually thought about the implications of get_data/zipimport/etc.
can decide whether to remove this functionality or to update the docs, I'm just
reporting it.
Also, it would be nice if get_data gained a "text mode" (i.e. returning str
instead of bytes and with support for universal newlines).
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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 252450
nosy: Antony.Lee
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Two issues with pkgutil.get_data
versions: Python 3.6
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