IronLanguages / IronLanguages/ironpython3

attribute dict of _io._IOBase and of user-defined subclasses are not the same

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Description

https://github.com/IronLanguages/ironpython3/pull/1000 adds __dict__ to _io._IOBase but it exposes the following issue:

import _io

b = _io.BytesIO()
b.foo = 2
assert "foo" in dir(b) # this currently fails
assert "foo" in b.__dict__

class Test(_io.BytesIO): pass

b = Test()
b.foo = 2
assert "foo" in dir(b)
assert "foo" in b.__dict__ # this currently fails

This causes pickling failures in CPython.test_memoryio.

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Research direction

Start with the _io._IOBase and user-defined _io.BytesIO subclass behavior shown in the reproducer, then run CPython.test_memoryio to observe the related pickling failure. Done means the listed dir() and dict assertions pass for both objects and CPython.test_memoryio no longer fails.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
python
Domain
backend
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
55/100

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