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andi999 on Sept 13, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: A Conversation with Guido van Rossum (2003)

From the first part: "If you're looking for import foo, it will eventually find either a file foo.py or foo.so (or foo.dll on Windows)" Does anybody have a link how to import a dll with the 'import' statement?

okl on Sept 13, 2021 | [–]

He's not referring to arbitrary shared libraries but rather to modules implemented in another language, usually C.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/32078764/how-are-python-...

https://docs.python.org/3/reference/import.html

andi999 on Sept 13, 2021 | | [–]

Thanks. Yes, I misread the statement.

rhn_mk1 on Sept 13, 2021 | | [–]

https://docs.python.org/3/extending/extending.html

anticodon on Sept 13, 2021 | [–]

It is possible to load arbitrary dll using ctypes module: https://docs.python.org/3/library/ctypes.html

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