Problems importing _sre w/VC7-compiled Python 2.1

[Fredrik Lundh]

Andrew MacIntyre wrote:
> On 19 May 2002, David Aldridge wrote:
>
> > After more investigation, turns out init_sre() was NOT
> > __declspec(dllexport)!
>
> I had been under the impression that sre was intended to always be built
> into the Python core (ie not as a loadable extension module), which might
> explain some of what you found.

SRE builds just fine as a DLL, and uses a DL_EXPORT statement
to make sure it exports the right stuff.  this works perfectly fine
under VC5 and VC6.

looks like the DL_EXPORT stuff simply doesn't work under VC7.
someone should file a bug report (http://www.python.org/dev/).

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