bpo-45406: make inspect.getmodule() return None when getabsfile() raises FileNotFoundError (GH-28824)

3 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/Lib/inspect.py b/Lib/inspect.py
index 14a42fda56c..dd891112570 100644
--- a/Lib/inspect.py
+++ b/Lib/inspect.py
@@ -858,7 +858,7 @@ def getmodule(object, _filename=None):
     # Try the cache again with the absolute file name
     try:
         file = getabsfile(object, _filename)
-    except TypeError:
+    except (TypeError, FileNotFoundError):
         return None
     if file in modulesbyfile:
         return sys.modules.get(modulesbyfile[file])
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_inspect.py b/Lib/test/test_inspect.py
index 7479eb326e6..d43486a2191 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_inspect.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_inspect.py
@@ -493,6 +493,15 @@ class TestRetrievingSourceCode(GetSourceBase):
         # Check filename override
         self.assertEqual(inspect.getmodule(None, modfile), mod)
 
+    def test_getmodule_file_not_found(self):
+        # See bpo-45406
+        def _getabsfile(obj, _filename):
+            raise FileNotFoundError('bad file')
+        with unittest.mock.patch('inspect.getabsfile', _getabsfile):
+            f = inspect.currentframe()
+            self.assertIsNone(inspect.getmodule(f))
+            inspect.getouterframes(f)  # smoke test
+
     def test_getframeinfo_get_first_line(self):
         frame_info = inspect.getframeinfo(self.fodderModule.fr, 50)
         self.assertEqual(frame_info.code_context[0], "# line 1\n")
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2021-10-08-19-24-48.bpo-45406.Qh_Mz4.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2021-10-08-19-24-48.bpo-45406.Qh_Mz4.rst
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..2c3a8165aeb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2021-10-08-19-24-48.bpo-45406.Qh_Mz4.rst
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Make :func:`inspect.getmodule` catch ``FileNotFoundError`` raised by  :'func:`inspect.getabsfile`, and return ``None`` to indicate that the module could not be determined.
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