Re: [Python-Dev] Use of objdump within ctypes _get_soname()

2018-10-10 Thread Ray Donnelly
I've looked into this more and it is more subtle than my initial report suggests (as usual). We have some custom code in AD around find_library() so it looks in sys.prefix/lib (on Unix) and I had a bug in that code when _get_soname returned None. I've fixed that now. I believe there is a conditio

Re: [Python-Dev] Python startup time

2018-10-10 Thread Ronald Oussoren via Python-Dev
> On 9 Oct 2018, at 23:02, Gregory Szorc wrote: > > > > While we're here, CPython might want to look into getdirentriesattr() as > a replacement for readdir(). We switched to it in Mercurial several > years ago to make `hg status` operations significantly faster [2]. I'm > not sure if it will