[Python-Dev] Modules of plat-* directories (original) (raw)

Victor Stinner victor.stinner at haypocalc.com
Mon Oct 17 02:04:38 CEST 2011

Le lundi 17 octobre 2011 01:16:36, Victor Stinner a écrit :

For example, IN.INTMAX is 2147483647, whereas it should be 9223372036854775807 on my 64-bit Linux.

Oops, wrong example: INT_MAX is also 2147483647 on 64 bits. I mean IN.LONG_MAX.

IN.LONG_MAX is always 9223372036854775807 on Linux, on 32 and 64 bits systems.

[Arfrerever] also suggested somewhere to regenerate these modules when Python is built.

somewhere is here: http://bugs.python.org/issue12619

DLFCN is used by PyKDE4: sys.setdlopenflags(DLFCN.RTLDNOW|DLFCN.RTLDGLOBAL). I didn't know this sys function :-)

Because Python has a sys.setdlopenflags(), we should provide these constants in a regular module (sys or posix). I'm quite sure that PyKDE4 would accept to add a try/except ImportError: DLFCN is only used in one file, to get 2 constants.

Victor

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