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Re: Win32 Python binding libraries still have .dll extension

From: D.J. Heap <djheap_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 20:42:42 -0600

2009/4/14 Роман Донченко <DXDragon_at_yandex.ru>

> Hello,
>
> I downloaded the Python 2.6 bindings for 1.6.1 yesterday, [1] to be
> precise. Upon testing the bindings they were summarily determined not to
> work. 8=] After some research I found that the binary modules in the
> distribution have the .dll extension, while Python only looks for .pyd
> since version 2.5. When I renamed *.dll to *.pyd, the modules worked as
> expected.
>
> Now, I see this issue have already been brought up on this list a few
> times ([2] [3]) but it doesn't look like the situation changed. It's kind
> of inconvenient and unobvious, so I supposed I'd nag you one more time
> with it. 8=]
>

That is what the bindings installer is for...why not use it? Or a patch to
the build or packaging scripts to handle it would be happily reviewed for
application as well...

DJ

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