inspect.getframeinfo() doesn't handle frames without lineno

[malemburg]

BPO	45563
Nosy	@malemburg, @markshannon, @graingert, @lysnikolaou, @pablogsal
PRs	gh-89726 handle frame.f_lineno is None in inspect.getframeinfo #32044

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[malemburg]

In Python 3.10, it seems that top-level frames generated by running exec() have their f_lineno attribute set to None.

inspect.getframeinfo() tries to build context lines and fails on this line in such a case:

        start = lineno - 1 - context//2

because lineno is None.

It's not clear whether this is a bug in inspect or the way such frames get their f_lineno attribute initialized.

The same code works just fine in Python 3.9.

[malemburg]

To add some more context:

This came up while porting eGenix PyRun to Python 3.10. While installing setuptools 58.2.0 via "pyrun setup.py install", an exception was raised in getframeinfo().

PyRun uses exec() to run Python code:

    def pyrun_exec_code_file(filename, globals_dict, locals_dict=None):
        with open(filename, 'r', encoding='utf-8') as file:
            source = file.read()
        code = compile(source, filename, 'exec', optimize=pyrun_optimized)
        exec(code, globals_dict, locals_dict)

Using pdb, I then found that the top frame does not have f_lineno set in Python 3.10.

[markshannon]

What is source?

[malemburg]

In the case of setuptools, this would be the file setup.py, but I think the specific file is not relevant. I can try to come up with a shorter example.

[malemburg]

Update: I've been trying hard to find a short version which triggers the issue, but so far it seems to only trigger when using exec() from a frozen Python module.

There don't appear to be many ways frame->f_lineno can end up being -1 (which then gets translated into None in Python). _PyCode_CheckLineNumber() is one source I found.

Any hints where to look for the cause of this weird effect ?