[New-bugs-announce] [issue3711] docs still say to use .dll for compiled extensions

[Gabriel Genellina]

New submission from Gabriel Genellina <gagsl-py2 at yahoo.com.ar>:

The "Extending and Embedding" document still says, in section "Building 
C and C++ Extensions on Windows":
http://docs.python.org/dev/extending/windows.html#a-cookbook-approach
that a C extension may be called spam.dll or spam_d.dll

Since version 2.5 the file must be called spam.pyd or spam_d.pyd - 
the .dll file extension isn't recognized anymore.

A proposed doc patch is attached.

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assignee: georg.brandl
components: Documentation
files: windows.diff
keywords: patch
messages: 72071
nosy: gagenellina, georg.brandl
severity: normal
status: open
title: docs still say to use .dll for compiled extensions
versions: Python 2.5, Python 2.6, Python 3.0
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file11284/windows.diff

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