Christian Heimes wrote:
> Floris Bruynooghe schrieb: > > What I can't work out however is how to then be able to raise this > > exception in another extension module. Just defining it as "extern" > > doesn't work, even if I make sure the first module -that creates the > > exception- gets loaded first. Because the symbol is defined in the > > first extension module the dynamic linker can't find it as it only > > seems to look in the main python executable for symbols used in > > dlloaded sofiles. > > > > Does anyone have an idea of how you can do this? > > The answer is so obvious that you are going to bang your head against > the next wall. You have to do exactly the same as you'd do with a pure > Python module: import it. :) Well, I hope the wall hurts as much as my head... Great tip, at first I wasn't looking forward to importing the module in every function where I wanted the exceptions. But then I realised they are global variables anyway so I could have them as such again and just assign them in the module init function. Thanks Floris -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
