Issue with Module Import: serial Not Appearing in crypten.common

[Lockerns]

Issue with Module Import: serial Not Appearing in crypten.common

Description

I encountered an issue with the crypten.common module where the serial module is not being exposed correctly, even though it is included in the __all__ list in __init__.py.

Details

• File Structure:

  • crypten/common/serial.py exists.
  • crypten/common/__init__.py contains:

    __all__ = ["functions", "rng", "tensor_types", "util", "serial"]

• Code to Reproduce:

  import crypten.common
  print(dir(crypten.common))

• Observed Output:

  ['__all__', '__builtins__', '__cached__', '__doc__', '__file__', '__loader__', '__name__', '__package__', '__path__', '__spec__', 'rng', 'tensor_types', 'util']

• Expected Output:

  ['__all__', '__builtins__', '__cached__', '__doc__', '__file__', '__loader__', '__name__', '__package__', '__path__', '__spec__', 'rng', 'tensor_types', 'util', 'serial']

It appears that serial is not being imported or exposed correctly within the crypten.common namespace.

Additional Information

• Python version: [3.7]
• Operating system: [Ubuntu 22.04]

[knottb]

Hmm, interesting. I seem to be able to reproduce this on my end, but not sure why. Seems to work fine internally:

https://github.com/facebookresearch/CrypTen/blob/main/crypten/communicator/distributed_communicator.py#L17

What is the use case for importing crypten.common.serial?