Ralf Schmitt wrote: > Hi all, > > I want to use the mmap module from python trunk with python 2.5. > On Linux I can easily replace it, as it is a dynamically loaded module. On > windows > it is a builtin module and I fear that I must compile python on windows (or > resort to some other ugly hack) > > What is the reason for mmap being a builtin module?
On Windows lots of modules are linked into the python main dll. The file PC/config.c contains a list of all modules. From the point of the maintainer it's much easier to link the modules into the main dll instead of creating standalone dlls. I also suspect that it's much faster because relocation is slow (see PC/dllbase_nt.txt). Martin or Mark can give you a better answer. Why do you want to overwrite the existing module instead of using a different name like ralfmmap? import ralfmmap as mmap sys.modules]'mmap'] = mmap Christian _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
