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gh-142418: Fix inspect.iscoroutinefunction for marked functools.partial and partialmethod objects - #142503

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Fixesgh-142418.

This PR updates inspect.iscoroutinefunction() so that coroutine markers
applied via inspect.markcoroutinefunction() are correctly detected on
wrapped callables, including functools.partial and
functools.partialmethod objects.

Previously, iscoroutinefunction() only checked the marker after unwrapping
the callable, which caused false negatives for marked partial and
partialmethod objects. The new logic checks for the marker at each unwrap
stage, with cycle protection, ensuring that any explicitly marked wrapper is
recognized as a coroutine function.

This change also adds regression tests verifying correct behavior for marked
and unmarked functools.partial and functools.partialmethod objects, and
includes a NEWS entry documenting the fix.


📚 Documentation preview 📚: https://cpython-previews--142503.org.readthedocs.build/

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Partial and method objects cannot form reference cycles in this context, so
the cycle-detection logic in _has_coroutine_mark introduced unnecessary
overhead. This change removes the visited-set check and keeps the function
as a simple unwrapping loop while still correctly detecting explicitly
marked coroutine wrappers.
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# Functions created by partialmethod descriptors keep a __partialmethod__ reference
pm = getattr(f, "__partialmethod__", None)
if isinstance(pm, functools.partialmethod):
f = pm
continue

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Well, this can also be moved forward by one block to avoid the time spent on obtaining the attribute when it is not necessary. I hope I have not bored you with these micro-optimizations.

Comment threadLib/inspect.py
continue

# partial and partialmethod share .func
if isinstance(f, (functools.partial, functools.partialmethod)):

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I will also add, "for the record", why I do not handle partialmethod objects in this way in the code attached to the original issue. They are not callable, and therefore applying markcoroutinefunction() to them is incorrect, which means they should not be checked. Being defined as a class member, accessing the corresponding attribute will return a regular function object created by partialmethod (or a method object for such a function, if via an instance). Therefore, there is no point in unnecessary iteration, and you can go straight to pm.func (see the block above).

Comment threadDoc/using/cmdline.rst

Interactive mode will start even when :data:`sys.stdin` does not appear to be a terminal. The
:envvar:`PYTHONSTARTUP` file is not read.
In these "execute then interact" cases, Python runs the script or command

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This seems unrelated changes

Comment threadLib/inspect.py
f = f.__func__
f = functools._unwrap_partial(f)
return getattr(f, "_is_coroutine_marker", None) is _is_coroutine_mark
while True:

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Please:

  • Wrap all lines under 80 characters.
  • Remove "obvious" comments. "Methods: unwrap first" is clear from the way you're doing it.
  • Avoid blank lines. The standard library usually tries to avoid expanding the code vertically.

Comment threadLib/inspect.py
return getattr(f, "_is_coroutine_marker", None) is _is_coroutine_mark
while True:
# Methods: unwrap first (methods cannot be coroutine-marked)
if ismethod(f):

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Why not doing while ismethod(f): f = f.__func__ here?

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>>>fromfunctoolsimportpartialmethod>>>classMyClass:
... defa(self): ...
... b=partialmethod(a)
>>>obj=MyClass()
>>>obj.bfunctools.partial(<boundmethodMyClass.aof<__main__.MyClassobjectat0x7fd343f4cc20>>)
>>>obj.b.func.__func__<functionMyClass.aat0x7fd343f42cf0>

When unwrapping the reference to obj.b, the functools.partial object comes before the method object, so the assumption that method objects always precede other objects is incorrect.

>>>fromfunctoolsimportpartialmethod>>>classMyFirstClass:
... deff(self, other): ...
>>>first=MyFirstClass()
>>>classMySecondClass:
... g=partialmethod(first.f)
>>>second=MySecondClass()
>>>second.g<boundmethodpartialmethod._make_unbound_method.<locals>._methodof<__main__.MySecondClassobjectat0x7fd343f4d400>>>>>second.g.__func__.__partialmethod__.func<boundmethodMyFirstClass.fof<__main__.MyFirstClassobjectat0x7fd343f4d2b0>>

Well, it seems to me that the current implementation (in the main branch) is not very well thought out. Personally, I would not rely on it.

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If your comment is only about why there is if instead of while... why do we need a nested loop when we already have an outer one? Moreover, how often are methods that refer to other methods used? Does it even make sense to try to optimize this case? I think it is sufficient and simpler to rely on the outer loop.

As you can easily see, the code in this PR is very similar to the one I attached to the original issue, except for the order of the blocks and some points borrowed from the original code (AI-generated or just copy-paste?). I use something similar in the implementation of similar functions in my library, although they are more general in nature.

Comment threadLib/inspect.py
Comment on lines +319 to +323
# Functions created by partialmethod descriptors keep a __partialmethod__ reference
pm = getattr(f, "__partialmethod__", None)
if isinstance(pm, functools.partialmethod):
f = pm
continue

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I think you should use functools._unwrap_partialmethod which handles both partial methods and partial functions (first it unwraps partial methods then unwraps partial functions)

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Please read the discussion at #142505.

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