Asdf Auto Reshim

[nizarakbarm]

How can we improve the documentation?

Some plugin like python if installed in asdf 0.15.0 usually can do auto reshiming after pip install. But in asdf 0.16.0, there is no auto rhesim again after installing package using pip install.

If there is a change of mechanism for this, can it added to the documentation?

[Stratus3D]

Hi @nizarakbarm , can you provide more information on this? How does the Python plugin perform auto reshimming? What callback/hook is used to trigger it?

I'm not aware of any changes in 0.16.x that would affect any auto reshimming features.

[nizarakbarm]

Hi @Stratus3D, sorry for the late reply, this is the example of asdf 0.15.0:

[nizarakb@kronos ~]$ asdf --version
v0.15.0-31e8c93
[nizarakb@kronos ~]$ python --version
Python 3.13.2
[nizarakb@kronos ~]$ pip --version
pip 25.0 from /home/nizarakb/.asdf/installs/python/3.13.2t/lib/python3.13t/site-packages/pip (python 3.13)
[nizarakb@kronos ~]$ pip install django
Collecting django
  Using cached Django-5.1.6-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (4.2 kB)
Requirement already satisfied: asgiref<4,>=3.8.1 in ./.asdf/installs/python/3.13.2t/lib/python3.13t/site-packages (from django) (3.8.1)
Requirement already satisfied: sqlparse>=0.3.1 in ./.asdf/installs/python/3.13.2t/lib/python3.13t/site-packages (from django) (0.5.3)
Using cached Django-5.1.6-py3-none-any.whl (8.3 MB)
Installing collected packages: django
Successfully installed django-5.1.6
Reshimming asdf python...
[nizarakb@kronos ~]$ ls -la .asdf/shims/
total 88
drwxrwxr-x  2 nizarakb nizarakb 4096 Feb  6 16:19 .
drwxrwxr-x 16 nizarakb nizarakb 4096 Feb  6 16:16 ..
-rwxrwxr-x  1 nizarakb nizarakb  133 Feb  6 16:20 django-admin

this is the example of asdf 0.15.0:

[nizarakb@kronos ~]$ asdf --version
asdf version v0.16.1
[nizarakb@kronos ~]$ asdf plugin list
python
[nizarakb@kronos ~]$ python --version
Python 3.13.2
[nizarakb@kronos ~]$ pip install --upgrade pip
Requirement already satisfied: pip in ./.asdf/installs/python/3.13.2/lib/python3.13/site-packages (24.3.1)
Collecting pip
  Using cached pip-25.0-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (3.7 kB)
Using cached pip-25.0-py3-none-any.whl (1.8 MB)
Installing collected packages: pip
  Attempting uninstall: pip
    Found existing installation: pip 24.3.1
    Uninstalling pip-24.3.1:
      Successfully uninstalled pip-24.3.1
Successfully installed pip-25.0
[nizarakb@kronos ~]$ pip install django
Collecting django
  Using cached Django-5.1.6-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (4.2 kB)
Requirement already satisfied: asgiref<4,>=3.8.1 in ./.asdf/installs/python/3.13.2/lib/python3.13/site-packages (from django) (3.8.1)
Requirement already satisfied: sqlparse>=0.3.1 in ./.asdf/installs/python/3.13.2/lib/python3.13/site-packages (from django) (0.5.3)
Using cached Django-5.1.6-py3-none-any.whl (8.3 MB)
Installing collected packages: django
Successfully installed django-5.1.6
[nizarakb@kronos ~]$ ls .adsf/^C  
[nizarakb@kronos ~]$ ls .asdf
.asdf/             .asdf completions/ 
[nizarakb@kronos ~]$ ls .asdf/shims/
idle  idle3  idle3.13  pip  pip3  pip3.13  pydoc  pydoc3  pydoc3.13  python  python-config  python3  python3-config  python3.13  python3.13-config  python3.13-gdb.py
[nizarakb@kronos ~]$ ls .asdf/shims/
idle  idle3  idle3.13  pip  pip3  pip3.13  pydoc  pydoc3  pydoc3.13  python  python-config  python3  python3-config  python3.13  python3.13-config  python3.13-gdb.py

I also didn't know where the reshimming is processed but in 0.15.0 always has reshimming everytime installing using package manager like pip.

[nizarakbarm]

Oh i just found out the reshimming was ran by the pip itself in 0.15.0, i will try to check in 0.16.0 again.

[nizarakbarm]

The reason reshimming didn't work because when installing python using asdf install, the pip which include reshimming in https://github.com/asdf-community/asdf-python/tree/master/shims was not downloaded.

[nizarakbarm]

Ah, it is related to syscall.Exec.