Hi, I'm trying to understand what might be going on with loading one Python interpreter on top of a second. I'm running on OSX with a conda python installation. I understand that python is now statically linked on conda.
I'm running python, which invokes an extension module. This extension module calls some C++ code that is trying to start a second interpreter -- it loads a shared object that's linked against libpython.dylib. When I try to initialize python (Py_Initialize) in the shared object loaded by the extension module, it fails (see below). I'm not mixing anything from the original python invocation to the one I'm trying run and I'm sure that Py_Initialize in the shared library invocation are from libpython.dylib, rather than from the python interpreter (python3). Is there some reason why I can't run a second interpreter using libpython.dylib when my process is already running python3? (I know that I can solve this by not linking libpython.dylib and deferring symbol resolution to runtime, which will force resolution to symbols in python3, but I don't know at build time if I'm using a statically-linked interpreter or not. I'd like to understand why this fails when I'm not sharing context with the original interpreter.) Fatal Python error: initsite: Failed to import the site module Traceback (most recent call last): File "/Users/acbell/miniconda3/envs/pdal/lib/python3.7/site.py", line 168, in addpackage exec(line) File "<string>", line 1, in <module> File "/Users/acbell/miniconda3/envs/pdal/lib/python3.7/importlib/util.py", line 14, in <module> from contextlib import contextmanager File "/Users/acbell/miniconda3/envs/pdal/lib/python3.7/contextlib.py", line 5, in <module> from collections import deque File "/Users/acbell/miniconda3/envs/pdal/lib/python3.7/collections/__init__.py", line 24, in <module> import heapq as _heapq File "/Users/acbell/miniconda3/envs/pdal/lib/python3.7/heapq.py", line 587, in <module> from _heapq import * Thanks, -- Andrew Bell andrew.bell...@gmail.com -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list