Mercurial > cpython-lru_cache-weakref
changeset 80661:94de77bd0b4b 2.7
Issue #16194: document imp.load_dynamic problems
when read several extension modules from the same binary object file.
| author | Andrew Svetlov <andrew.svetlov@gmail.com> |
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| date | Thu, 29 Nov 2012 19:51:28 +0200 |
| parents | ea4bdf5a2e69 |
| children | 40b71097d255 |
| files | Doc/library/imp.rst |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/Doc/library/imp.rst Thu Nov 29 14:22:26 2012 +0200 +++ b/Doc/library/imp.rst Thu Nov 29 19:51:28 2012 +0200 @@ -237,6 +237,17 @@ using shared libraries is highly system dependent, and not all systems support it.) + .. impl-detail:: + + The import internals identify extension modules by filename, so doing + ``foo = load_dynamic("foo", "mod.so")`` and + ``bar = load_dynamic("bar", "mod.so")`` will result in both foo and bar + referring to the same module, regardless of whether or not + ``mod.so`` exports an ``initbar`` function. On systems which + support them, symlinks can be used to import multiple modules from + the same shared library, as each reference to the module will use + a different file name. + .. function:: load_source(name, pathname[, file])
