[Lldb-commits] [PATCH] D13880: Create an lldb/third_party folder, and add Python module 'six' to it.

[Todd Fiala via lldb-commits]

tfiala added a comment.

In http://reviews.llvm.org/D13880#270742, @zturner wrote:

> Todd, do you have any good ideas on how to organize this and make it play nicely with python's module / package system?  `dotest` is just an arbitrary script under lldb/test and is not part of any installed package or anything.  At the same time, third party code needs to be in a centralized place at the top-level in case it needs to be tracked or audited by legal people.  So I don't think we can put six under `test` (nor would it even make sense to, since that wouldn't help people under lldb/scripts who also want to use it).
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> So somehow `lldb/scripts` and `lldb/test` both need to be able to import from `lldb/third_party/Python/modules`.
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> I know this isn't really the "pythonic" way, because it expects everything to be nicely organized packages with a nice hierarchy, but dotest is treated as a one-off script.  I don't really want people to have to install `six` via setuptools or anything because it just adds an unnecessary extra step which is a regression from the status quo.
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> Do absolute imports help us?  (https://docs.python.org/2.5/whatsnew/pep-328.html)
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> I think this question speaks to a more general problem of: "How do we re-use python code across tests and scripts?"  Do you have any suggestions that can make this work cleanly?


Hmm, registering that I see the question.  I need to think about it.

Generally I have an upper level script (such as dotest.py in our case) that gets called directly, and adds paths relative to its script directory to set up all the other bits it needs to find.  One example of where I do this in lldb is a util that probably nobody else uses, utils/sync-source/syncsource.py.  It imports os and sys, and from that, bootstraps its sys.path (PYTHONPATH) by adding the script-file-relative lib dir to the python path.

So the technique is find an anchor point (in the case above, dotest.py) and have it add the script-relative path to the python path.

I do the same thing to adjust the pylint .pylintrc python path, so that pylint can find not only the lldbtest path, but also the lldb module executable (via lldb[.exe] -P).

Not sure if that helps?


http://reviews.llvm.org/D13880