Import idapro in the GUI exits IDA without saving

IDA General Bugs
1

I was going to import ida_ida but by mistake wrote import idapro and then IDA shutdown without saving my database.

This was from inside IDA Pro 9.4 with GUI up on a Windows 10.

2

What version is your idapro module and how did you install it? Normally, it should have this check at the start of __init__.py:

_main = sys.modules.get("__main__")
if _main is not None and getattr(_main, "IDAPYTHON_VERSION", None) is not None:
    raise ImportError("The IDA library can only be run in a separate process and cannot be loaded within IDA itself.")
3

I’m on 0.0.10 which is the latest pip gave me. What happens when you run it in the GUI?

4

Here’s what happens normally:

Python>import idapro
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
  File "C:\Python311\Lib\site-packages\idapro\__init__.py", line 16, in <module>
    raise ImportError("The IDA library can only be run in a separate process and cannot be loaded within IDA itself.")
ImportError: The IDA library can only be run in a separate process and cannot be loaded within IDA itself.

You can use importlib to check what specific lbrary it’s trying to import:

Python>import importlib
Python>importlib.util.find_spec("idapro").origin
'C:\\Python311\\Lib\\site-packages\\idapro\\__init__.py'
5

I found the problem. It was that IKernel set sys.modules["__main__"] but I added the IDAPYTHON_VERSION so it’s all good now :slight_smile: