[Bug 1774843] Re: apport python exception for python versions which python-apt is not built on

[Brian Murray]

** Changed in: python3.8 (Ubuntu Bionic)
       Status: New => Triaged

** Changed in: python-apt (Ubuntu Bionic)
       Status: New => Invalid

** Changed in: python-apt (Ubuntu Eoan)
       Status: New => Invalid

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Title:
  apport python exception for python versions which python-apt is not
  built on

Status in Apport:
  New
Status in python-apt package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in python3.7 package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in python3.8 package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in python-apt source package in Bionic:
  Invalid
Status in python3.7 source package in Bionic:
  Triaged
Status in python3.8 source package in Bionic:
  Triaged
Status in python-apt source package in Eoan:
  Invalid
Status in python3.7 source package in Eoan:
  Triaged
Status in python3.8 source package in Eoan:
  Triaged
Status in python-apt source package in Focal:
  Invalid
Status in python3.7 source package in Focal:
  Invalid
Status in python3.8 source package in Focal:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  it seems apport installs an exception hook whenever running python3.
  This hook is apparently installed for python3.7 too.
  This exception handler has a dependency on apt_pkg, which is a binary that is not compatible with python3.7 it seems (you can't import it, see below)

  As a result, whenever I run a python3.7 script and run into an exception (which happens often when writing code), I get an additional exception in the exception handler + a copy of the original exception, so three stacktraces in total.
  A solution would be to only install the exception hook for the system python  i.e. python3.6

  
  $ lsb_release -rd
  Description:	Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
  Release:	18.04

  apport: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7
  python-apt: 1.6.0
  python3.7: 3.7.0~b3-1

  Demo with a trivial error:
  $ python3 -c 'print hello'
    File "<string>", line 1
      print hello
                ^
  SyntaxError: Missing parentheses in call to 'print'. Did you mean print(hello)?

  
  $ python3.7 -c 'print hello'
    File "<string>", line 1
      print hello
                ^
  SyntaxError: Missing parentheses in call to 'print'. Did you mean print(hello)?
  Error in sys.excepthook:
  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apport_python_hook.py", line 63, in apport_excepthook
      from apport.fileutils import likely_packaged, get_recent_crashes
    File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apport/__init__.py", line 5, in <module>
      from apport.report import Report
    File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apport/report.py", line 30, in <module>
      import apport.fileutils
    File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apport/fileutils.py", line 23, in <module>
      from apport.packaging_impl import impl as packaging
    File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apport/packaging_impl.py", line 24, in <module>
      import apt
    File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apt/__init__.py", line 23, in <module>
      import apt_pkg
  ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'apt_pkg'

  Original exception was:
    File "<string>", line 1
      print hello
                ^
  SyntaxError: Missing parentheses in call to 'print'. Did you mean print(hello)?


  Python 3.6.5 (default, Apr  1 2018, 05:46:30) 
  [GCC 7.3.0] on linux
  Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
  >>> import sys
  >>> sys.excepthook
  <function apport_excepthook at 0x7fdf2b99a620>
  >>> import apt_pkg
  >>> apt_pkg.__file__
  '/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apt_pkg.cpython-36m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so'
  >>> 

  Python 3.7.0b3 (default, Mar 30 2018, 04:35:22) 
  [GCC 7.3.0] on linux
  Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
  >>> import sys
  >>> sys.excepthook
  <function apport_excepthook at 0x7f29a6eebea0>
  >> import apt_pkg
  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'apt_pkg'

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