Hi all, I'd like some feedback on a patch assigned to me. It is designed to prevent Python extensions built for an earlier version of Python from crashing the new version. I haven't actually tested the patch, but I am sure it works as advertised (who is db31 anyway?). My question relates more to the "style" - the patch locates the new .pyd's address in memory, and parses through the MS PE/COFF format, locating the import table. If then scans the import table looking for Pythonxx.dll, and compares any found entries with the current version. Quite clever - a definite plus is that is should work for all old and future versions (of Python - dunno about Windows ;-) - but do we want this sort of code in Python? Is this sort of hack, however clever, going to some back and bite us? Second related question: if people like it, is this feature something we can squeeze in for 2.0? If there are no objections to any of this, I am happy to test it and check it in - but am not confident of doing so without some feedback. Thanks, Mark.
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