python3.5 + reportlab + windows again

[Robin Becker]

On 08/10/2015 10:26, Robin Becker wrote:
> On 06/10/2015 16:31, Robin Becker wrote:
> .........
>>
>> well it seems someone can build these extensions properly. I used Christoph
>> Gohlke's reportlab build and although there are 3 failures in the latest tests I
>> don't see any crashes etc etc and all the failures are explainable. Last thing I
>> saw from him in respect of pyRXPU was to use extra_compile_args=['/Od']. I will
>> try that in the reportlab extension builds and see if the problems go away.
>
> I figured out the problem I was having with windows vs python3.5. It seems that
> something has changed in the way extensions are loaded when using imp to
> override the normal import mechanism.
.......
I managed to fix up my c-extension loading code so it works for pythons 2.7, 
3.3, 3.4 & 3.5.

Horrid details can be found here

https://code.activestate.com/recipes/579109-loading-c-extensions-from-a-repository-build-area/

-- 
Robin Becker