[issue40600] Add option to disallow > 1 instance of an extension module

[Petr Viktorin]

Petr Viktorin <encukou at gmail.com> added the comment:

Is it really necessary to add a slot/flag for this?
It can be done in about 10 lines as below, without complications like a global (or per-interpreter) registry of singleton modules.
Are there many modules that need to be per-interpreter singletons, but may be loaded in multiple interpreters? In my experience, it is really hard to ensure modules behave that way; if (if!) we need to add a dedicated API for this, I'd go for once-per-process.


static int loaded = 0;

static int
exec_module(PyObject* module)
{
    if (loaded) {
        PyErr_SetString(PyExc_ImportError,
                        "cannot load module more than once per process");
        return -1;
    }
    loaded = 1;
    // ... rest of initialization
}

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