electrum

commit 811169da4b9a31388cc1d9e8e2cac738f14eded9
parent 29ce50a30566d1c69c99896c355df9084a3b3cbd
Author: SomberNight <somber.night@protonmail.com>
Date:   Wed, 12 Jun 2019 20:07:36 +0200

plugins: on some systems plugins with relative imports failed to load

this caused electrum to fail to start
potentially only older python 3.6.x are affected

fixes #5421

Diffstat:
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electrum/plugin.py
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1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/electrum/plugin.py b/electrum/plugin.py
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ import pkgutil
 import importlib.util
 import time
 import threading
+import sys
 from typing import NamedTuple, Any, Union, TYPE_CHECKING, Optional
 
 from .i18n import _
@@ -73,6 +74,9 @@ class Plugins(DaemonThread):
                 raise Exception(f"Error pre-loading {full_name}: no spec")
             try:
                 module = importlib.util.module_from_spec(spec)
+                # sys.modules needs to be modified for relative imports to work
+                # see https://stackoverflow.com/a/50395128
+                sys.modules[spec.name] = module
                 spec.loader.exec_module(module)
             except Exception as e:
                 raise Exception(f"Error pre-loading {full_name}: {repr(e)}") from e