Thank you both for your answers. I will go away with this modification, and see how it goes.
David On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 2:41 AM, Wes Turner <wes.tur...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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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