Scott David Daniels <scott.dani...@acm.org> writes: > Ben Finney wrote: > > Thank you for the correction. Please mentally substitute into my > > argument the files that *are* compiled C extension modules; it > > remains otherwise unchanged. > > But the compiled C extension modules are called ".pyd" files and > they are built separately from the execution time and thus do not > suffer the faults of which you complain.
I didn't discuss build versus execution time at all. My point was, for those who are still distracted: Whatever they're named, whenever they're built, the architecture-dependent executable module files are by default located and searched for in the same place as architecture-independent executable module files. That is a mismatch between Python and the FHS. One which is being actively addressed, if I understand some enthusiastic reports from PyCon 2009 correctly; but nevertheless, one which impacts the ideal the original poster is hoping for. -- \ “I saw a sign: ‘Rest Area 25 Miles’. That's pretty big. Some | `\ people must be really tired.” —Steven Wright | _o__) | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list