On Mar 11, 2015 3:36 PM, "David Cournapeau" <courn...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > While looking at the import code of python for C extensions, I was wondering why we pass a relative path instead of an absolute path to LoadLibraryEx (see bottom for some context). > > In python 2.7, the full path existence was even checked before calling into LoadLibraryEx ( https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/2.7/Python/dynload_win.c#L189), but it looks like this check was removed in python 3.x branch. > > Is there any defined behaviour that depends on this path to be relative ?
Just a guess: does it have to do with resolving symlinks (w/ POSIX filesystems)?
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