RFT mode circular import issue

[chendu1993]

When running pyarmor with rft mode enabled the obfuscation process works fine, but running the obfuscated files directly causes an error that would imply a circular dependency of imports (ImportError: cannot import name 'x' from 'y'). Running the unobfuscated files directly works fine, it's only the obfuscated files that seem to have this circular dependency.

One more thing to note is without rft mode enabled, the obfuscated files run fine again without a circular dependency so this issue seems to only be tied to rft mode. Any ideas?

[jondy]

RFT mode really changes the import and from...import statement with new form, could you provide a few simple example scripts?

[chendu1993]

test_pyarmor.zip
I have attached my sample scripts. What I'm running is the runsomething/runner.py
The command I'm running to obfuscate is: "pyarmor -d gen --enable-rft -O output -r ."
Running the unobfuscated version of runner.py with the correct PYTHONPATH is fine, but then running the obfuscated version in output/runsomething/runner.py with the correct PYTHONPATH is hitting an error that would imply a circular dependency:
ImportError: cannot import name 'dir2' from 'dir1.dir2.test2'

[jondy]

Got it, thanks. I'll check it when I'm back office in next Monday.

[jondy]

It will be fixed in next release, here is pre-release
https://pyarmor.dashingsoft.com/downloads/temp/pyarmor-8.5.10.zip

[chendu1993]

Hi @jondy, I'm still hitting an error with the same sample I gave. This time the error is "ImportError: cannot import name 'abcd' from 'dir1.dir2.test2'"

[jondy]

Are you really using pyarmor -d gen --enable-rft -O output -r . to obfuscate the scripts?
Try to use pyarmor cfg strip_package_name = 1, if it doesn't work, try to pyarmor cfg strip_package_name = 2.

[chendu1993]

I was able to verify the fix with strip_package_name = 2, thank you, but now I'm running into another similar issue with an updated sample. Here is the sample:
test.zip
The error I am getting now is:
ImportError: cannot import name 'Abcd' from 'dir3.test_class1'

Again, running from unobfuscated test works fine, but running from obfuscated test results in error. Thank you

[jondy]

This is because your package structure is not plain, for example, in pyarmor view, test/test1/test3 is package test.test1.test3, but by extra Python path test/test1, it is used as package test3
Pyarmor RFT mode can't handle this case, it may be handled in future
But not try to reform your package structure

[chendu1993]

Makes sense, thank you for that. Is there a possible solution for the file structure to make it play well with Pyarmor RTF mode?

[jondy]

For example, move test/test1/test3 to test/test3
If not move the folder, import test1.test3.xxx instead of import test3.xxxx