Nick Coghlan added the comment:
The behaviour won't change in 2.7, but the docs at
http://docs.python.org/2/library/imp.html#imp.load_dynamic still need to be
clarified.
e.g. add a note like:
Note: the import internals identify extension modules by filename, so doing
``foo = load_dynamic("foo", "mod.so")`` and ``bar = load_dynamic("bar",
"mod.so")`` will result in both foo and bar referring to the same module,
regardless of whether or not ``mod.so`` exports an ``initbar`` function. On
systems which support them, symlinks can be used to import multiple modules
from the same shared library, as each reference to the module will use a
different file name.
(probably flagged as a CPython implementation detail, since it's really an
accident of the implementation rather than a deliberately considered language
feature)
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