On Mon, 07 Jul 2014 19:03:33 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 6:57 PM, Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> > wrote: >> which suggests that the pgmodule.so file creates a module called "pg". >> What I don't understand is how "import pg" gets turned into "run >> pgmodule.so"? > > What happens if you *don't* import pg? Is there a sys.modules["pg"] > already?
No. py> "pg" in sys.modules.keys() False But then there's this: py> import pgmodule Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> ImportError: dynamic module does not define init function (initpgmodule) py> import pg py> import pgmodule py> pg.__file__ == pgmodule.__file__ True o_O -- Steven -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
