I put a patch on sourceforge, #511962, which enables sys.setdlopenflags() on MacOSX. The only values you can pass are 0 (the default, dynamic modules are each loaded into their own private symbol namespace) and 0x100 (modules are loaded into the process' global symbol namespace, so they can refer to eah other's symbols). As the API is compatible with Linux I hope this solves the problem of the people who want a global namespace, could they please apply the patch and see whether it works? As I myself think this is a hack upon a hack, could people with Strong Opinions (you know who you are:-) please tell (a) me to commit the patch, (b) me to change the patch, or (c) the people addressed in the previous paragraph to not do what they're doing:-) -- - Jack Jansen <Jack.Jansen@oratrix.com> http://www.cwi.nl/~jack - - If I can't dance I don't want to be part of your revolution -- Emma Goldman -