Module name does not match file name

[Steven D'Aprano]

Ah, I think I have a partial answer... but not a complete answer.


On Mon, 07 Jul 2014 07:57:21 +0000, Steven D'Aprano wrote:

> Can anyone explain how "import pg" can end up coming from pgmodule.so?
> 
> 
> Sure enough:
> 
>>>> import pg
>>>> pg.__file__
> '/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/pgmodule.so'



I've looked inside the pgmodule.c source code, and it includes this 
snippet:


extern void
initpg(void)
{
    char *p;
    int i;

    Py_InitModule("pg", pg_methods);


which suggests that the pgmodule.so file creates a module called "pg". 
What I don't understand is how "import pg" gets turned into "run 
pgmodule.so"?




-- 
Steven