[jira] Resolved: (MODPYTHON-11) Cross contamination of modules

["Nicolas Lehuen (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MODPYTHON-11?page=all ]
     
Nicolas Lehuen resolved MODPYTHON-11:
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     Assign To: Nicolas Lehuen
    Resolution: Fixed

Resolved along with MODPYTHON-9.

> Cross contamination of modules
> ------------------------------
>
>          Key: MODPYTHON-11
>          URL: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MODPYTHON-11
>      Project: mod_python
>         Type: Bug
>     Versions: 3.1.3
>     Reporter: Graham Dumpleton
>     Assignee: Nicolas Lehuen
>     Priority: Minor

>
> This carries on from MODPYTHON-10. In fixing MODPYTHON-10, this problem 
> is likely to be addressed. Text taken from mailing list.
> Cross contamination of modules
> ------------------------------
> For the above case, change the code in "subdir-1/index.py" to:
>   subdir1 = None
>   def index():
>     return "subdir-1",globals().keys()
> and "subdir-2/index.py" to:
>   subdir2 = None
>   def index():
>     return "subdir-2",globals().keys()
> Accessing "subdir-1" the result is:
>   ('subdir-1', ['index', '__mtime__', '__builtins__',
>    '__file__', 'subdir1', '__name__', '__doc__'])
> Now accessing "subdir-2" the result is:
>   ('subdir-2', ['index', '__mtime__', '__builtins__',
>    '__file__', 'subdir2', 'subdir1', '__name__', '__doc__'])
> Back to "subdir-1" again:
>   ('subdir-1', ['index', '__mtime__', '__builtins__',
>    '__file__', 'subdir2', 'subdir1', '__name__', '__doc__'])
> Because modules of the same name are reimported on top of the existing
> module you can end up with cross contamination of modules in respect of
> global variables, functions, class definitions, module imports etc.
> The most obvious problem this causes with publisher, is that one can
> suddenly have appear in a module a function from a different module. This
> function then becomes accessible using an appropriate URL via the module
> in which it doesn't belong.
> Overall this is annoying and could be problematic for those unaware.

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