Brett Cannon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment:

On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 14:34, Amaury Forgeot d'Arc
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Amaury Forgeot d'Arc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment:
>
> When python is embedded in a program, there must be a way for the
> program to export
> some of its functions to python - a module that resides in the main
> executable.
>
> You cannot use the import machinery to import such a module, because
> there is no
> separate file to find and load. Instead, the embedding program
> explicitly calls the
> module init() function.
> With python 2.x, this creates the module *and* inserts it into
> sys.modules. Then
> subsequent imports will find it directly in sys.modules.
>
> mod_python for example works this way.
> I maintain that the sample is still valid, and should be made to work
> somehow.

That's what I mean; the example is off as in incorrect. Not off as in
trying to do something silly.

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