[Python-Dev] microsoft dlls apparently don't support data. implications: PyAPI functions required to access data across modules. (original) (raw)

Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton lkcl at lkcl.net
Sun Jan 25 17:33:54 CET 2009

here is a starting list of data items which will require "getter" functions, found just by creating a posixmodule.pyd:

_Info: resolving _PyNoneStruct by linking to imp_PyNoneStruct (auto-import)

by no small coincidence, every single module with which we've had difficulties in the mingw port - _sre, thread, operator, locale, winreg, signal and have been forced to put them into python2N.dll - all of them happen to directly reference the _PyNone_Struct data variable.

surpriiise.

that means that the Py_None macro must call the "getter" function.

l.

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