Module name does not match file name
Steven D'Aprano
steve at pearwood.info
Mon Jul 7 04:57:00 EDT 2014
Ah, I think I have a partial answer... but not a complete answer.
On Mon, 07 Jul 2014 07:57:21 +0000, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> Can anyone explain how "import pg" can end up coming from pgmodule.so?
>
>
> Sure enough:
>
>>>> import pg
>>>> pg.__file__
> '/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/pgmodule.so'
I've looked inside the pgmodule.c source code, and it includes this
snippet:
extern void
initpg(void)
{
char *p;
int i;
Py_InitModule("pg", pg_methods);
which suggests that the pgmodule.so file creates a module called "pg".
What I don't understand is how "import pg" gets turned into "run
pgmodule.so"?
--
Steven
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