What is a .pyd file

[Michael Hudson]

"David Humphrey" <dhumphrey at pdqdot.net> writes:

> Is it built as a DLL and then renamed?  

Yes (well, pedantically I think it's built like a dll but named
differently, but the effect is the same).

> If so, why?

There's zlib.dll (the zlib library) and zlib.pyd (the python wrapper),
for one thing.  Basically I guess it's so you can spot dll's that are
intended to be imported in Python.

Cheers,
M.

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