On Dec 12, 2004, at 11:02 AM, Martin v. Löwis wrote:
Bob Ippolito wrote:I believe this is not implementable: How can the DLL know which PythonWell for py2app on Mac OS X, I wrote an executable stub that chooses a Python runtime from an XML file, looks up and binds a few symbols from it dynamically, and then starts doing stuff.
DLL to use?
While that would work, I think this is inappropriate for this specific issue: we want to write extension modules which are independent of the Python version, and might even be used with multiple Python installations on the same system. In that case, adding configuration files won't work, as each usage of the extension might require a different Python DLL.
Yes, of course, I was talking about the executable, not extensions. On Mac OS X 10.3+, the linker flag -undefined dynamic_lookup allows extensions to link to no Python whatsoever. The extensions will just find the symbols it needs from some other image already loaded into the process at runtime. If it weren't for the "forced" ABI incompatibility, we'd already have extensions that work cross-Python-major-version (assuming they used a safe subset of functions and structures).
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