2.5a1 import of .dlls

[Thomas Heller]

sven.nystrom at gmail.com wrote:
> I've re-built an extension module (as a .dll) using the 2.5a1 release.
> Unexpectedly, I'm not able to simply import it (not the way I can when
> building it for 2.3). Using imp.load_dynamic() the import succeeds.
> 
>>>> import minx     # Implemented in a .dll - fails
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
> ImportError: No module named minx
>>>> import imp    # Workaround
>>>> import os
>>>> minx = imp.load_dynamic('minx', os.getcwd() + '\\minx.dll')
>>>>
> 
> I couldn't find anything to indicate this is by design in 2.5a1 (I did
> read the PEP 328: Absolute and Relative Imports) - am I doing something
> wrong?
> 
Extension modules for 2.5 can no longer have the '.dll' extension, they must
have a '.pyd' extension.  I don't know why this isn't documented somewhere (although
I would expect it in Misc/NEWS instead of in PEP 328) - you should filke a bug report.

Thomas