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Use inspect.getsource instead of open() for source-reading in _can_set_*_implementation#46207

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What does this PR do?

Avoid open()-reading transformers' own .py source in modeling_utils.py (alongside #46152). This is helpful for hermetic Python builds (e.g. with Bazel) and other non-standard environments (as opposed to open() which can vary based on the precise environment and filesystem).

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  • Adds _nn_classes_in_defining_module helper on PreTrainedModel; rewrites the two _can_set_attn_implementation / _can_set_experts_implementation checks to use it. The new checks test the same property as before (does this model use the modern attention / experts interface?) but inspect live nn.Module subclasses instead of grepping the file text.

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Hey! Just some remarks to clean the code a bit

Comment thread src/transformers/modeling_utils.py Outdated
Comment on lines +2081 to +2082
def _nn_classes_in_defining_module(cls, *, name_contains: str | None = None) -> list[type] | None:
"""Return `nn.Module` subclasses defined in `cls`'s module, or None if the module isn't loaded."""

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Let's not create a function for this

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Removed.

Comment thread src/transformers/modeling_utils.py Outdated
Comment on lines +2105 to +2108
return any(
"ALL_ATTENTION_FUNCTIONS" in getattr(getattr(attn_cls, "forward", None), "__globals__", {})
for attn_cls in attention_classes
)

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Let's use inspect.getsource here instead

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Thanks @Cyrilvallez -- I did this approach becuase @zucchini-nlp seemed unhappy with the source-reading + regex approach here but I think tightening up the regex will at least give equivalent results (see discrepancy here).

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Done!

@rasmi rasmi force-pushed the can-set-impl-introspection branch from bafc137 to 88d216a Compare May 28, 2026 02:30
@rasmi rasmi force-pushed the can-set-impl-introspection branch from 88d216a to dd767df Compare May 28, 2026 02:33
@rasmi rasmi changed the title Replace source-reading in _can_set_*_implementation with class introspection Use inspect.getsource instead of open() for source-reading in _can_set_*_implementation May 28, 2026
@rasmi rasmi requested a review from Cyrilvallez May 28, 2026 02:36
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