Python has supported using dynload_shlib (using dlopen) on AIX since https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/c19c5a62aef7dce0e8147655b0d2f087965fae75 in 2003. This is also about the time that AIX 4.3 went out of support, which is believed to be the AIX release that added support for dlopen. Considering it is now 20ish years later and in this time, every supported AIX release has had dlopen support, I suspect nobody has used or tested this code path in quite some time. I propose removing this support under PEP 11.
For reference, I opened https://bugs.python.org/issue42030 and changes were merged in https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/22717. I opened a PR to update PEP 11 in https://github.com/python/peps/issues/1653, but was told this needed discussion here. Sorry if this didn't quite follow the process correctly, I thought I had things in the right order, but I guess not. Also apologies if this is a duplicate, but my first message appears to have been lost/eaten (possibly a first-time moderation queue?). _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list -- python-dev@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-dev-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/message/7QVLHW36FBZBEHSEPNVXAKXGUQHP3WX5/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
