From a00c2407caed1fe61bdd92788f7a8eb27fcff969 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Brett Cannon <brett@python.org>
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2014 10:58:33 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Issue #20884: Don't assume in importlib.__init__ that
 __file__ is defined.

---
 Lib/importlib/__init__.py | 7 ++++++-
 Misc/NEWS                 | 2 ++
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Lib/importlib/__init__.py b/Lib/importlib/__init__.py
index f6adc5cdcf..1bc99474f2 100644
--- a/Lib/importlib/__init__.py
+++ b/Lib/importlib/__init__.py
@@ -22,7 +22,12 @@ else:
     # a second copy of the module.
     _bootstrap.__name__ = 'importlib._bootstrap'
     _bootstrap.__package__ = 'importlib'
-    _bootstrap.__file__ = __file__.replace('__init__.py', '_bootstrap.py')
+    try:
+        _bootstrap.__file__ = __file__.replace('__init__.py', '_bootstrap.py')
+    except NameError:
+        # __file__ is not guaranteed to be defined, e.g. if this code gets
+        # frozen by a tool like cx_Freeze.
+        pass
     sys.modules['importlib._bootstrap'] = _bootstrap
 
 # To simplify imports in test code
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 33e7092af1..ab25f1a8bc 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -21,6 +21,8 @@ Core and Builtins
 Library
 -------
 
+- Issue #20884: Don't assume that __file__ is defined on importlib.__init__.
+
 - Issue #20879: Delay the initialization of encoding and decoding tables for
   base32, ascii85 and base85 codecs in the base64 module, and delay the
   initialization of the unquote_to_bytes() table of the urllib.parse module, to
-- 
2.40.0