Stefan Krah added the comment: Antoine Pitrou <rep...@bugs.python.org> wrote: > Who are those people? #16745 was opened by you :-)
MvL, in #4555 (msg176486). > > Platform specific maybe, but no hack: I was thinking about storing the DSO > > handle in the PyModuleObject struct and add functions to lookup symbols. > > I'm attaching a diff for Linux -- It has been a while, but I'm rather > > certain > > that the corresponding scheme also worked on Windows (can't test now, my > > Windows VM is defunct). > > How does it work? I've tried to dlopen() and then dlsym() the _decimal > file manually, it wouldn't work for private (e.g. mpd) symbols. Yes, the symbols would need to be public, see module_get_symbol.diff. > > > That would leave the usual troublemakers AIX etc., which have sketchy > > support > > anyway. > > That sounds rather worrying. How about OS X? Why would that whole scheme > be better than a capsule? I'm not sure about OS X, but I would be surprised if it did not work. To my limited knowledge, Capsules are slow, see also here (the penultimate paragraph): https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2013-March/124481.html Stefan (Behnel), could you comment on the strategy that you had in mind? Is it similar to module_get_symbol.diff or entirely different? ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue22194> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
