str object got multiple values for keyword argument

[vadmium]

BPO	27286
Nosy	@rhettinger, @mdickinson, @ncoghlan, @larryhastings, @ambv, @vadmium, @serhiy-storchaka, @irushchyshyn
PRs	[3.5] bpo-29537: Tolerate legacy invalid bytecode #169
Files	BUILD_MAP_UNPACK_WITH_CALL-function_pos.patch BUILD_MAP_UNPACK_WITH_CALL-function_pos2.patch

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assignee = 'https://github.com/serhiy-storchaka'
closed_at = <Date 2016-06-12.07:41:31.780>
created_at = <Date 2016-06-10.09:37:11.397>
labels = ['interpreter-core', 'type-bug']
title = 'str object got multiple values for keyword argument'
updated_at = <Date 2017-03-24.22:42:19.149>
user = 'https://github.com/vadmium'

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url = 'https://bugs.python.org/issue27286'
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[vadmium]

Playing with the generalized unpacking (PEP-448), I found a funny error message, when duplicate dictionary unpackings are included and also duplicate a literal keyword argument:

>>> print(end=".\n", **dict(end="dupe"))  # No problem
TypeError: print() got multiple values for keyword argument 'end'
>>> print(**dict(end=".\n"), **dict(end="dupe"))  # No problem
TypeError: print() got multiple values for keyword argument 'end'
>>> print(end=".\n", **dict(end="dupe"), **dict(end="dupe 2"))  # str object?!
TypeError: str object got multiple values for keyword argument 'end'

[serhiy-storchaka]

Here is a fix.

[rhettinger]

This patch looks correct.

[serhiy-storchaka]

Since currently generated bytecode is not correct, I think we should update the magic number for forcing the regenerating pyc-files.

[python-dev]

New changeset 34d24c51eab6 by Serhiy Storchaka in branch '3.5':
Issue bpo-27286: Fixed compiling BUILD_MAP_UNPACK_WITH_CALL opcode. Calling
https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/34d24c51eab6

New changeset 194549801bd5 by Serhiy Storchaka in branch 'default':
Issue bpo-27286: Fixed compiling BUILD_MAP_UNPACK_WITH_CALL opcode. Calling
https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/194549801bd5

[jpe]

Should the bytecode magic number be bumped in the 3.5 branch? This breaks .pyc / .pyo binary compatibility for python 3.5. As far as I can tell this has never been done before in a release after the major.minor.0 final release.

This patch has made its way into debian's python 3.5 and I've gotten a bug report because of it for an app distributed without python source.

Looking at the 3.5.2 tarball, it does not look like the change was included in 3.5.2. If the magic number is bumped in 3.5, the comment should be changed to reflect that it changes in 3.5.3 and not in 3.5.2

[serhiy-storchaka]

Bytecode generated by 3.5.1 is not correct (wrong error message can be not the only effect). The only way to resolve this issue is regenerating the bytecode.

3.5.2 was released two weeks after committing this patch. I expected it includes this change.

[ambv]

The magic number change in a minor release was a mistake. Let's not do that with 3.6.x releases. Since Python doesn't check if there's a corresponding .py file that can be used to rebuild the .pyc file, we shouldn't reject existing .pyc files on the basis that they *might* be broken.

[shai]

Following the last comment, and just as clarification for anyone else running into this and thinking like me: The bumped code is not included in v3.5.2, and v3.5.3 hasn't been released yet. Should it be undone?

No, because the bump which was encountered by John Ehresman on Debian Testing has also made it into Ubuntu 16.04LTS. Undoing it, at this point, is liable to bring even worse breakage than the original change caused.

http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/changelogs/pool/main/p/python3.5/python3.5_3.5.2-2ubuntu0\~16.04.1/changelog

[mdickinson]

It's difficult to track down which versions of Python 3.5.x the bytecode change is in because the Misc/NEWS entry has vanished, apparently in this merge commit:

aa0f9d8

[larryhastings]

Sorry about that! It's almost like manually updating Misc/NEWS is a bad design :(