Python libraries portable?
Corey Richardson
corey at octayn.net
Thu Jun 7 19:17:13 EDT 2012
On Thu, 7 Jun 2012 15:09:36 -0800
Tim Johnson <tim at akwebsoft.com> <tim at akwebsoft.com> wrote:
> Does this mean that I could copy my MySQLdb module directly from
> my workstation via ftp to a server, and have it work, given that
> sys.path contained the path?
>
No, absolutely not. MySQLdb is a C extension. Assuming same
architecture and shared libraries, it will *probably* work, but no
guarantees. If any of those are different, even slightly, it will break.
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Corey Richardson
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