[python-committers] Issue #11051: system calls per import

[Georg Brandl]

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Am 30.01.2011 13:52, schrieb Nick Coghlan:
> On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 7:25 PM, Georg Brandl <georg at python.org> wrote:
>>> And why it does test with and without "module".
>>
>> Because it always did (there's a thing called backwards compatibility.)
>>
>> This is of course probably the obvious one to start a deprecation process.
> 
> But why do we check the long suffix for the *new* extension module
> naming variants from PEP 3149 and PEP 384? Those are completely new,
> so there's no backwards compatibility argument there.

It's for easy transition I guess -- you take the same module name and
just tack on .abi3.so instead of .so.

Georg
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