Are *.pyd's universal?
Philip Semanchuk
philip at semanchuk.com
Thu Oct 29 20:49:50 EDT 2009
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
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