James Carroll wrote: > Hi, I'm creating an extension called _bright.so on linux. I can > import it with import _bright, but how can I import bright and get the > package? > > On windows, I've been able to import bright instead of import _bright,
That has to be a bug. You shouldn't rely on that behavior. > but on Linux it seems to need the underscore. I'm tempted to create a > bright.py with from _bright import *, but I'm wondering if there's a > more direct way. Call it bright.so . > Also, I'm using scons to generate my lib, and it insists on prepending > the characters lib to my library name, so if I tell it to generate > _bright.so it gives me lib_bright.so. Is there a way of turning this > off so I don't have to rename it back to _bright.so? If at all possible, you should use distutils to build Python extensions. If you must use Scons, read http://www.scons.org/cgi-bin/wiki/PythonExtensions and use SharedLibrary(... SHLIBPREFIX="", ...) -- Robert Kern [EMAIL PROTECTED] "In the fields of hell where the grass grows high Are the graves of dreams allowed to die." -- Richard Harter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
