Hidden dependency

[phodina]

Hi,

would it be possible to refactor the code in such a way that running the module A would not import another module B that imports from A?

In this case Guix/Nix modifies/replaces the original lglaf file and replaces it with a shell script that has paths to all the needed python modules and as last step executes the Python interpreter.

Fix would be to point/import to the real file/module .lglaf.py-real but IMHO the function that's imported should be part of some utils module.

A: lglaf.py
B: laf_crypto

pethod@CZPRGL-B18SYD3 ~/expanse/expanse/packages$ /gnu/store/qj9xjlrci45shbms6kkklmyck0pgflpx-lglaf-0.1/bin/lglaf.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/gnu/store/qj9xjlrci45shbms6kkklmyck0pgflpx-lglaf-0.1/bin/.lglaf.py-real", line 41, in <module>
    import laf_crypto
  File "/gnu/store/qj9xjlrci45shbms6kkklmyck0pgflpx-lglaf-0.1/lib/python3.10/site-packages/laf_crypto.py", line 4, in <module>
    from lglaf import int_as_byte
  File "/gnu/store/qj9xjlrci45shbms6kkklmyck0pgflpx-lglaf-0.1/bin/lglaf.py", line 2
    jr-python-packaging-bootstrap-21.3/lib/python3.10/site-packages:/gnu/store/k7svck56hhagdg3q4nqlk5z1j57w9sli-python-pycparser-2.21/lib/python3.10/site-packages:/gnu/store/ij3wk9likzyv9jbwx60rmi0vyjhdi2dw-python-six-bootstrap-1.16.0/lib/python3.10/site-packages:/gnu/store/wlmf5spfdmsjiw6cx30h0rpydfpz3gil-python-pyparsing-3.0.6/lib/python3.10/site-packages${GUIX_PYTHONPATH:+:}$GUIX_PYTHONPATH"
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

[steadfasterX]

everything is possible - but this ain't gonna happen sorry. not that I don't like the idea but there is no time on my site - especially as it is more a conceptual issue then a problem preventing (regular) things to work. as said: it would be better implemented in a utils or sim module though but this requires first of all the time doing it and ofc even more for testing all known scenarios