New submission from Sandro Mani:
I'm using Python3 as available in Fedora rawhide
(python3-3.3.0-2.fc19.x86_64).
Attempting to build a project using python3/distutils, I noticed that
find_library_file would not find any library at all. Some investigation
showed that this was due to the
Sandro Mani added the comment:
So, from what I can see, historically the SO extension was taken from
sysconfig.py, see [1] lines 24 and 60. Then, the CCompiler class got
overhauled, and the value was hardcoded to ".so", see [2], but the
"compiler.shared_lib_extension = SO"
