Re: [pygame] extending mask module?

[Lenard Lindstrom <len-l@xxxxxxxxx>]

Just something more I noticed.

Lenard Lindstrom wrote:
> Regarding shared (dynamic)  libraries I am have only used Windows 
> DLLs. Unix shared libraries are similar.
>
> Michael George wrote:
> > The part I was and am still a bit confused about is name clashes.  If 
> > I understand correctly, python extension modules are supposed to only 
> > export the initmodule method in order to avoid name clashes, which is 
> > why the docs say everything should be static.
[snip]
> >
> Name clashes were a concern in the past when extension modules were 
> statically linked to the Python interpreter, as was necessary with 
> DOS. I assume no modern operating system requires this, so name 
> clashes are no longer an issue. (See below.) If anyone is still 
> statically linking the Pygame extension modules they haven't 
> complained about name conflicts yet. Besides, all the bitmask names 
> are mangled with a prefix.
I see that the distutils package has an option for exporting names from 
an extension  module on Windows. So if only the init function is 
non-static why provide a way to export other non-static names?  I would 
like to know where in the Python documentation is says that only init 
functions be non-static. It is apparently outdated advice.

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Lenard Lindstrom
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