[Python-Dev] AIX shared library support

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Bill Tutt wrote:
> 
> Is there any particular reason that dynload_aix.c doesn't use AIX's dlopen?
> >From what I can tell, libtool seems to use dlopen on AIX 3.xxx and AIX
> 4.xxx.
> 
> I was all set to integrate the \N{...} support into the Unicode-escape
> encoding, and dynamically load the hash table data in on demand, but
> dynload_aix only cares about module entry points and won't let you specify
> an explicit function name.

Uhm, why do you need to go that deep into the internals
of the import mechanism ? 

Wouldn't is suffice to put the hash table into a _ucnhash module
which get imported on demand (the import mechanism would then
take care of the rest) ?

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