>> That would involve patching Python in some nifty places which would >> probably lead to less Platform independence, so no option yet.
> I should have been more clear: what I meant was to engage the Python > community to get such a feature to be implemented upstream in Python > itself. Since I would find it easy to believe that other Python > Extension projects may run into similar issues, it may be worth > raising this issue to the Python community and opening the debate > there. > > That being said, Nysal also posted an interesting approach. :-) I think what Nysal wrote is exactly the chance for every Python user to configure the dynamic loading to ones needs. I'll try that. But I think that obsoletes the need to open a discussion in the Pyhton community. -- Michael Meinel German Aerospace Center Center for Computer Applications in Aerospace Science and Enginnering