[Python-Dev] Renaming sqlite3 (original) (raw)

Thomas Heller theller at python.net
Tue Apr 4 10:32:03 CEST 2006

Martin v. Löwis wrote:

Thomas Heller wrote:

But if you make the change to implement option 3, IMO it would be a good idea to add the Python version number to the .pyd basename as well. Can you please elaborate? In the name of what .pyd file do you want the Python version number? And why?

Since on Windows binary extensions have to be compiled for the exact major version of Python, it seems logical (to me, at least), to include that version number into the filename. Say, _socket25.pyd.

And why is that related to not supporting extensions with .DLL names anymore?

IMO changing that would require a PEP (but I may be wrong), and this is only another idea which should be considered when writing or discussing that. If you don't like the idea, or don't see any advantages in this, I retract the request.

pywin32 already has to do this, since pythoncomXY.pyd and pywintypesXY.pyd have to live (if possible) in the windows directory. I think this is a very special case: it could have been implemented with separate DLLs which just provide the COM entry points, and find the location of pythoncom.pyd from the registry. I would discourage people from providing additional entry points to an extension module.

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