[Pythonmac-SIG] OS X wxPython.xrc and pyexpat conflict.

[Jack Jansen]

On donderdag, dec 19, 2002, at 22:33 Europe/Amsterdam, Robin Dunn wrote:

> OS X 10.2.x
> MachoPython 2.2.x
> PyXML 0.8.x
>
> The wxPython.xrc module includes a copy of the expat lib, and PyXML's 
> pyexpat module does as well.  When both are imported into Python on OS 
> X an ImportError "Failure linking new module" results presumably 
> because of conflicts between the two copies of expat.  They seem to 
> coexist okay on Linux and Win32 platforms.  Does anyone have any 
> suggestions for getting them to play nice with each other on OS X?  Is 
> there an easy way to hide the expat symbols in the XRC library for 
> example?

I think that moving to Python 2.3a0 is the only option. Or somehow hack 
up Python 2.2 to not use flat namespaces.
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