""" Checks that SymPy does not contain indirect imports. An indirect import is importing a symbol from a module that itself imported the symbol from elsewhere. Such a constellation makes it harder to diagnose inter-module dependencies and import order problems, and is therefore strongly discouraged. (Indirect imports from end-user code is fine and in fact a best practice.) Implementation note: Forcing Python into actually unloading already-imported submodules is a tricky and partly undocumented process. To avoid these issues, the actual diagnostic code is in bin/diagnose_imports, which is run as a separate, pristine Python process. """ import subprocess import sys from os.path import abspath, dirname, join, normpath import inspect from sympy.testing.pytest import XFAIL @XFAIL def test_module_imports_are_direct(): my_filename = abspath(inspect.getfile(inspect.currentframe())) my_dirname = dirname(my_filename) diagnose_imports_filename = join(my_dirname, 'diagnose_imports.py') diagnose_imports_filename = normpath(diagnose_imports_filename) process = subprocess.Popen( [ sys.executable, normpath(diagnose_imports_filename), '--problems', '--by-importer' ], stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.STDOUT, bufsize=-1) output, _ = process.communicate() assert output == '', "There are import problems:\n" + output.decode()