[Python-Dev] versioned .so files for Python 3.2

[Brett Cannon]

On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 11:53, Éric Araujo <merwok at netwok.org> wrote:
> Le 24/06/2010 19:48, Brett Cannon a écrit :
>> P.S.: I wish we could drop use of the 'module.so' variant at the same
>> time, for consistency sake and to cut out a stat call, but I know that
>> is asking too much.
>
> At least, looking for spam/__init__module.so could be avoided. It seems
> to me that the package definition does not allow that.

I thought no one had bothered to change import.c to allow for
extension modules to act as a package's __init__?

As for not being allowed, I don't agree with that assessment. If you
treat a package's __init__ module as simply that, a module that would
be named __init__ when imported, then __init__module.c would be valid
(and that's what importlib does).

> The tradeoff
> would be code complication for one less stat call. Worth a bug report?

Nah.