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`PyImport_CreateModuleFromInitfunc()`: wrong `__name__` for submodules, non-ASCII names rejected, inittab name clashes

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Bug report

Bug description:

Since PyImport_CreateModuleFromInitfunc() was added (in 3.15, gh-116146), I ran into some issues from real world use internally at Meta (with 3.15+, as well as our 3.14 fork, which has this backported). Collected here as a single issue for convenience - let me know if splitting is preferred.

The API is built on the internal create_builtin() helper, and inherits a few inittab behaviors that don't make sense for an explicitly-passed init function.

  1. Single-phase submodules get the short name. The package context is never set while initfunc runs, so a single-phase init that creates its module as sub (what pybind11's PYBIND11_MODULE(sub, m) does) ends up with __name__ == 'sub' while the spec says pkg.sub. The original impl handled that, but it was lost somewhere on the way.
  2. Non-ASCII spec names raise UnicodeEncodeError, even for multi-phase modules, which the dynamic loader accepts.
  3. Names registered in PyImport_Inittab are handled silently. Depending on the state of the builtin, initfunc is ignored, or the module created here replaces the builtin for later imports, or (multi-phase builtin) initfunc's module overwrites the real one in sys.modules. sys and builtins fall in the first bucket.
  4. Undocumented semantics. Single-phase modules are added to sys.modules by the call itself, multi-phase ones aren't. The spec name is the module's identity, so a second call with the same name and a different initfunc returns the cached module and never calls the new function.

The existing test only covers one top-level single-phase and one top-level multi-phase module, so none of this was caught.

AI disclosure: I ran into the first issue in production, used Claude Opus 5 and Fable 5.1 to root cause, which flagged the other issues while investigating. Fable 5.1 prepared the fixes.

Demo output before any fix:

pkg.sub: repr=<module 'sub'> __name__=sub
non-ASCII name: UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character '\xf6'
same name, initfunc B after A: which=A  calls_a=1 calls_b=0
'_random' via custom initfunc, then `import _random`: <module 'same'>  hasattr(Random)=False

Tests demonstrating all of the above: https://github.com/itamaro/cpython/tree/gh-116146-initfunc-tests-only

Plan

One PR each:

  • Set the package context while calling initfunc, like the dynamic loader does (1)
  • Accept non-ASCII names for multi-phase init; single-phase gets the same SystemError as dynamic loading (2)
  • Raise ImportError for names registered in PyImport_Inittab (3)
  • Document the sys.modules and name-identity behavior (4)
CPython versions tested on:

CPython main branch, 3.15

Operating systems tested on:

Linux, macOS

Linked PRs
  • gh-157387
  • gh-157388
  • gh-157389
  • gh-157390
  • gh-157758

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调研方向

从 PyImport_CreateModuleFromInitfunc()、现有的顶层单阶段和多阶段模块测试,以及链接的 gh-116146-initfunc-tests-only 测试分支开始。将其行为与 PyImport_Inittab 和动态加载器进行比较。完成的标准是四个检查项都已处理,包括对 sys.modules 和名称同一性语义的文档说明;链接的 PR gh-157387 至 gh-157390 以及 gh-157758 表明相关工作已经在进行中。

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