Extending Python dynamically

[Robin Dunn]

> Thank you for your help. The method you suggested works perfectly!
> However, I do not understand completely how the Python interpreter finds
out
> that it has to load an so file. Normally -- I believed -- when Python sees
an
> "import xxx" statement it looks for a xxx.py, xxx.pyc or xxx.pyo file in
the
> $PYTHONPATH directories or an xxx subdirectory having an __init__.py file,
but
> not an xxx.so file. This means that if I add the current directory to the
> $PYTHONPATH (such as export PYTHONPATH='.' Python will find any arbitrary
so
> file in the $PWD?

It will also load xxxmodule.so as well, but .so files only get imported if
they have an initxxx() function.


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