[Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] cpython: _PyImport_LoadDynamicModule() encodes the module name explicitly to ASCII (original) (raw)

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Tue May 10 02:06:03 CEST 2011

On Mon, 09 May 2011 16:11:15 +0200 Victor Stinner <victor.stinner at haypocalc.com> wrote:

Le lundi 09 mai 2011 à 09:00 -0400, Jim Jewett a écrit : > Are you asserting that all foreign modules (or at least all handled by > this) are in C, as opposed to C++ or even Java or Fortran? (And the C > won't change?)

C and C++ identifiers are restricted to ASCII. I don't know for Fortran or Java.

Why is it important, though? What matters is not what C/C++ can produce, but what a shared library can export. So the question is: are shared libraries limited to ASCII symbols?

Regards

Antoine.

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