2.5a1 import of .dlls

[sven.nystrom]

I've re-built an extension module (as a .dll) using the 2.5a1 release.
Unexpectedly, I'm not able to simply import it (not the way I can when
building it for 2.3). Using imp.load_dynamic() the import succeeds.
Traceback (most recent call last):

I couldn't find anything to indicate this is by design in 2.5a1 (I did
read the PEP 328: Absolute and Relative Imports) - am I doing something
wrong?

 

[Thomas Heller]

I've re-built an extension module (as a .dll) using the 2.5a1 release.
Unexpectedly, I'm not able to simply import it (not the way I can when
building it for 2.3). Using imp.load_dynamic() the import succeeds.

Traceback (most recent call last):


I couldn't find anything to indicate this is by design in 2.5a1 (I did
read the PEP 328: Absolute and Relative Imports) - am I doing something
wrong?

Extension modules for 2.5 can no longer have the '.dll' extension, they must
have a '.pyd' extension. I don't know why this isn't documented somewhere (although
I would expect it in Misc/NEWS instead of in PEP 328) - you should filke a bug report.

Thomas