Moshe Zadka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On 14 Nov 2000, Rob Tillotson wrote:
[...]
> > Any package that has a binary extension in it will necessarily have to
> > be compiled for a specific Python version.
>
> This isn't true. Python 1.5.2-compiled extensions will work just fine
> with Python 2.0.
Python 2.0 will complain though. The API version has been incremented
because of the new Unicode types.
$ ./python
Python 2.0 (#1, Nov 15 2000, 22:30:44)
[GCC 2.95.2 20000220 (Debian GNU/Linux)] on linux2
Type "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import zlib
WARNING: Python C API version mismatch for module zlib:
This Python has API version 1009, module zlib has version 1007.
Here zlibmodule.so from 1.5.2 is in my $PYTHONPATH.
It didn't actually crash, though.
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