Are *.pyd's universal?

[Philip Semanchuk]

On Oct 29, 2009, at 8:41 PM, Christian Heimes wrote:

> Lawrence D'Oliveiro schrieb:
>> In message <mailman.2268.1256841007.2807.python-list at python.org>,  
>> Christian
>> Heimes wrote:
>>
>>> On Linux and several other Unices the suffix is .so and not .pyd.
>>
>> Why is that? Or conversely, why isn't it .dll under Windows?
>
> .so is the common suffix of shared libraries on Linux. IIRC Python
> extensions have .pyd on Mac OS X.

I've never seen a .pyd under OS X (although that doesn't mean they  
don't exist).

The Python extensions I've written in C compile to a .so under OS X.

Cheers
P