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

[Steve Holden]

Fredrik Lundh wrote:
> Steve Holden wrote:
> 
>>> for reference, here's what I get on Ubuntu 7.10, with the standard 
>>> Python interpreter (2.5.1):
>>>
>>> $ python -c "import imp; print imp.get_suffixes()"
>>> [('.so', 'rb', 3), ('module.so', 'rb', 3), ('.py', 'U', 1),
>>> ('.pyc', 'rb', 2)]
>>>
>>> any Ubuntu gurus here that can sort this one out?
>>>
>> I wouldn't claim to be an Ubuntu guru but it seems as though the Ubuntu 
>> team decide that you would be able to import extension module YYY either 
>> from YYY.so or from YYYmodule.so. IF you are asking *why* then I'd have 
>> to answer that I have no idea at all.
> 
> oh, the ".so" and "module.so" is standard Python behaviour (see my first 
> post in this thread).  what I cannot figure out is how "llothar" has 
> managed to get setup.py to build extensions that an Ubuntu Python cannot 
> load, without noticing.
> 
Well, at least *I* learned something in this thread. I had missed that 
second paragraph in your first post, and hadn't realised it from other 
sources.

regards
  Steve
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