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-rw-r--r--Doc/faq/windows.rst12
-rw-r--r--Misc/NEWS4
2 files changed, 10 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/faq/windows.rst b/Doc/faq/windows.rst
index 246856e..59f9480 100644
--- a/Doc/faq/windows.rst
+++ b/Doc/faq/windows.rst
@@ -170,18 +170,20 @@ offender.
How do I make an executable from a Python script?
-------------------------------------------------
-See http://www.py2exe.org/ for a distutils extension that allows you
+See http://cx-freeze.sourceforge.net/ for a distutils extension that allows you
to create console and GUI executables from Python code.
+`py2exe <http://www.py2exe.org/>`_, the most popular extension for building
+Python 2.x-based executables, does not yet support Python 3 but a version that
+does is in development.
+
Is a ``*.pyd`` file the same as a DLL?
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-.. XXX update for py3k (PyInit_foo)
-
Yes, .pyd files are dll's, but there are a few differences. If you have a DLL
-named ``foo.pyd``, then it must have a function ``initfoo()``. You can then
+named ``foo.pyd``, then it must have a function ``PyInit_foo()``. You can then
write Python "import foo", and Python will search for foo.pyd (as well as
-foo.py, foo.pyc) and if it finds it, will attempt to call ``initfoo()`` to
+foo.py, foo.pyc) and if it finds it, will attempt to call ``PyInit_foo()`` to
initialize it. You do not link your .exe with foo.lib, as that would cause
Windows to require the DLL to be present.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index a5e8482..e330826 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -302,7 +302,9 @@ Tests
Documentation
-------------
-- Issue #20255: Update the about and bugs pages.
+- Issue #20266: Updated some parts of the Windows FAQ.
+
+- Issue #20255: Updated the about and bugs pages.
- Issue #20253: Fixed a typo in the ipaddress docs that advertised an
illegal attribute name. Found by INADA Naoki.