On Wed, Feb 08, 2012 at 07:01:48PM +0200, Daniel Shahaf wrote: > So, you are saying that there is no legitimate/supported scenario in > which the .py and .so are out of sync with each other? And that code > written for a library version that has the symbol will return a normal > error (eg, AttributeError in Python) when run against a library version > (such as 1.7.2) that doesn't have the symbol? > > (I'm talking about the .so here; it's not clear to me whether your > reference to hasattr() checked the existence of the symbol in the .py > library file or in the .so library file.) > > In these cases it seems to me that we might be able to backport this. > Stefan?
I have no idea :)