As the maintainer of bytecode (thanks to Victor), I expect that adding
support for 3.11 will be challenging at least. However I hoped that by
waiting for the first beta most changes would be at least documented. What
would be the best channel to reach people that may clarify how things work
starting with 3.11 ?

Best

Matthieu Dartiailh

On Fri, Apr 1, 2022, 18:34 Mark Shannon <m...@hotpy.org> wrote:

> Hi Gabriele,
>
> On 01/04/2022 4:50 pm, Gabriele wrote:
> > Does this mean that this line in the bytecode library is likely to fail
> with 3.11, with no way to fix it?
> >
>
> You can pass the exception table the same way you pass all the other
> arguments.
> The exception table depends on the code, but that is nothing new. The
> bytecode library already recomputes the consts, names, etc.
>
> TBH, calling `types.CodeType` didn't work for earlier versions either.
> It just sort of worked, some of the time.
>
> Cheers,
> Mark.
>
>
> >
> https://github.com/MatthieuDartiailh/bytecode/blob/7b0423234b0e999b45a4eb0c58115b284314f46b/bytecode/concrete.py#L398
> <
> https://github.com/MatthieuDartiailh/bytecode/blob/7b0423234b0e999b45a4eb0c58115b284314f46b/bytecode/concrete.py#L398
> >
> >
> > On Fri, 1 Apr 2022, 10:40 Victor Stinner, <vstin...@python.org <mailto:
> vstin...@python.org>> wrote:
> >
> >     I created https://bugs.python.org/issue47185 <
> https://bugs.python.org/issue47185> to discuss this issue:
> >     either recompute automatically co_exceptiontable, or at least
> document
> >     the change.
> >
> >     Victor
> >
> >     On Fri, Apr 1, 2022 at 11:21 AM Victor Stinner <vstin...@python.org
> <mailto:vstin...@python.org>> wrote:
> >      >
> >      > ("Re: C API: Move PEP 523 "Adding a frame evaluation API to
> CPython"
> >      > private C API to the internal C API")
> >      >
> >      > On Fri, Apr 1, 2022 at 11:01 AM Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com
> <mailto:ros...@gmail.com>> wrote:
> >      > >
> >      > > On Fri, 1 Apr 2022 at 19:51, Victor Stinner <
> vstin...@python.org <mailto:vstin...@python.org>> wrote:
> >      > > > In Python, sadly the types.CodeType type also has a public
> constructor
> >      > > > and many projects break at each Python release because the API
> >      > > > changes. Hopefully, it seems like the new CodeType.replace()
> method
> >      > > > added to Python 3.8 mitigated the issue. IMO
> CodeType.replace() is a
> >      > > > better abstraction and closer to what developers need in
> practice.
> >      > >
> >      > > It certainly has been for me. When I want to do bytecode
> hackery, I
> >      > > usually start by creating a function with def/lambda, then
> construct a
> >      > > modified function using f.__code__.replace(). It's the easiest
> way to
> >      > > ensure that all the little details are correct.
> >      >
> >      > Python 3.11 added the concept of "exception table"
> >      > (code.co_exceptiontable). You have to build this table, otherwise
> >      > Python can no longer catch exceptions :-)
> >      >
> >      > I don't know how to build this exception table. It seems like
> >      > currently there is no Python function in the stdlib to build this
> >      > table.
> >      >
> >      > Example:
> >      > ---
> >      > def f():
> >      >     try:
> >      >         print("raise")
> >      >         raise ValueError
> >      >     except ValueError:
> >      >         print("except")
> >      >     else:
> >      >         print("else")
> >      >     print("exit func")
> >      >
> >      > def g(): pass
> >      >
> >      > if 1:
> >      >     code = f.__code__
> >      >     g.__code__ = g.__code__.replace(
> >      >         co_code=code.co_code,
> >      >         co_consts=code.co_consts,
> >      >         co_names=code.co_names,
> >      >         co_flags=code.co_flags,
> >      >         co_stacksize=code.co_stacksize)
> >      > else:
> >      >     g.__code__ = f.__code__  # this code path works on Python 3.11
> >      >
> >      > g()
> >      > ---
> >      >
> >      > Output with Python 3.10 (ok):
> >      > ---
> >      > raise
> >      > except
> >      > exit func
> >      > ---
> >      >
> >      > Output with Python 3.11 (oops):
> >      > ---
> >      > raise
> >      > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >      >   ...
> >      > ValueError
> >      > ---
> >      >
> >      > By the way, this change is not documented at all:
> >      >
> >      > * https://docs.python.org/dev/library/types.html#types.CodeType <
> https://docs.python.org/dev/library/types.html#types.CodeType>
> >      > * https://docs.python.org/dev/whatsnew/3.11.html <
> https://docs.python.org/dev/whatsnew/3.11.html>
> >      >
> >      > I understand that these changes come from the "Zero cost exception
> >      > handling" change:
> >      > https://bugs.python.org/issue40222 <
> https://bugs.python.org/issue40222>
> >      >
> >      > Victor
> >      > --
> >      > Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my
> death.
> >
> >
> >
> >     --
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