bpo-34871: inspect: Don't pollute sys.modules (GH-9696) (#9701)

miss-islington · methane · Yury Selivanov · commit 476c294f260e · 2018-10-04T15:26:33.000-04:00
https://bugs.python.org/issue34871 (cherry picked from commit 6f85b82) Co-authored-by: INADA Naoki <methane@users.noreply.github.com>
diff --git a/Lib/inspect.py b/Lib/inspect.py
@@ -1988,7 +1988,7 @@ def _signature_fromstr(cls, obj, s, skip_bound_arg=True):
         module = sys.modules.get(module_name, None)
         if module:
             module_dict = module.__dict__
-    sys_module_dict = sys.modules
+    sys_module_dict = sys.modules.copy()
 
     def parse_name(node):
         assert isinstance(node, ast.arg)
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-10-04-18-46-54.bpo-34871.t3X-dB.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-10-04-18-46-54.bpo-34871.t3X-dB.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+Fix inspect module polluted ``sys.modules`` when parsing
+``__text_signature__`` of callable.

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	`1`	+Fix inspect module polluted ``sys.modules`` when parsing
	`2`	+``__text_signature__`` of callable.