Bug report

Bug description:

pkgutil directly uses zipimport._zip_directory_cache, in this block:

       def iter_zipimport_modules(importer, prefix=''):
           dirlist = sorted(zipimport._zip_directory_cache[importer.archive])

since #103208 , this is no longer safe, because that made zipimport no longer always refresh the cache on invalidation. I think that if the cache has been invalidated but not accessed 'normally' since then, this direct access attempt can cause a crash as it doesn't trigger a refresh:

E           KeyError: '/tmp/dask-scratch-space/scheduler-belyj1dp/myfile.zip'

I observed this in the test suite for dask-distributed - see dask/distributed#8708 - but it seems like a general issue, and @desmondcheongzx asked me to file an issue, so here it is. That test suite hits it in a test that runs async and creates archives under the same name repeatedly, but there are probably other ways to hit this, I guess.

CPython versions tested on:

3.13

Operating systems tested on:

Linux

Linked PRs

• gh-121342: Fixed pkgutil.iter_zipimport_modules on an invalidated cache (#121342) #121705