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| author | Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org> | 1999-06-18 19:17:28 (GMT) |
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| committer | Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org> | 1999-06-18 19:17:28 (GMT) |
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Added paragraph about potential re-initialization of extension
modules; responding to suggestion by Robin Boerdijk
<Robin.Boerdijk@nl.origin-it.com>.
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diff --git a/Doc/ext/ext.tex b/Doc/ext/ext.tex index d645af7..33d6492 100644 --- a/Doc/ext/ext.tex +++ b/Doc/ext/ext.tex @@ -406,6 +406,13 @@ that it creates (which is unused here). It aborts with a fatal error if the module could not be initialized satisfactorily, so the caller doesn't need to check for errors. +\strong{Note:} Removing entries from \code{sys.modules} or importing +compiled modules into multiple interpreters within a process (or +following a \cfunction{fork()} without an intervening +\cfunction{exec()}) can create problems for some extension modules. +Extension module authors should exercise caution when initializing +internal data structures. + \section{Compilation and Linkage \label{compilation}} |