[Touch-packages] [Bug 1721840] Re: dl module is missing?

2017-10-10 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
annoyingly python2 has: ctypes.RTLD_GLOBAL ctypes.RTLD_LOCAL, but not ctypes.RTLD_NOW -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to python2.7 in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1721840 Title: dl module is

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1721840] Re: dl module is missing?

2017-10-10 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
I wonder if https://pypi.python.org/pypi/backports.os https://github.com/pjdelport/backports.os should grow this feature, since python3 is the future. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to python2.7 in Ubuntu.

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1721840] Re: dl module is missing?

2017-10-10 Thread Colin Watson
Your changelog entry for 2.2.1-1 suggests that it was enabled once. As far as I can tell there's no other terribly sensible way to get at the value of RTLD_NOW in Python 2; I was helping a friend who was writing a complicated thing to do with the Python gdb bindings that needed that and that

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1721840] Re: dl module is missing?

2017-10-09 Thread Matthias Klose
I'm not sure that this was ever enabled. it's documented as "a highly experimental and dangerous device for calling *arbitrary* C functions in *arbitrary* shared libraries". I'd like to keep it disabled. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded