[Stackless] Stackless not picking up my regular Python path

[Bob Ippolito]

On May 4, 2004, at 1:57 PM, Guyren G Howe wrote:

> Forgive the idiot question.
>
> But I have stackless installed on OS X. I can do, say, this:
>
> from wxPython.wx import *
>
> in my "regular" Python, but not in stackless. Presumably, stackless is 
> not picking up my Python path.

Even if Stackless did have that wxPython in its sys.path, it would 
crash on import with a Version Mismatch error.  This is because the 
extension bundles are directly linked to a SPECIFIC (as in precise 
on-disk location) Python framework and that SPECIFIC framework gets 
loaded at runtime even if there is an otherwise suitable Python 
framework (such as Stackless) already loaded.  You will need to 
recompile any Python modules you use for Stackless on OS X.

Even though the Stackless ABI is compatible with Python's, the way 
extensions are linked on OS X with current versions of Python does not 
support what you want to do.  This may change in a future version of 
Python, but the only correct way to do such linking requires Mac OS X 
10.3 or later anyways, so if you want to support 10.2 then you should 
get used to recompiling things.

-bob


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