When does a binary extension gets the file extension '.pyd' and when is it '.so'

[Roel Schroeven]

llothar schreef:
>> There are ways to build distributions of Python extensions (modules or
>> packages involving binary code from languages like C or C++), but you
>> will want to understand a bit more about computing in general
> 
> Believe me nobody needs to teach me anything about general programming
> anymore.

"The people who are best at programming are the people who realize how 
small their brains are. They are humble." -- Edsger Dijkstra, 1972

(http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000051.html, 
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/ewd03xx/EWD340.PDF)


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The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge
faster than society gathers wisdom.
   -- Isaac Asimov

Roel Schroeven