Issue #14040: Remove rarely used file name suffixes for C extensions (under POSIX mainly).
This will improve import performance a bit (especially under importlib).
diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst
index 8cabab6..20e2914 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst
@@ -939,6 +939,20 @@
:c:func:`PyUnicode_FromFormat()`, your code will automatically take
advantage of the new unicode representations.
+Building C extensions
+---------------------
+
+* The range of possible file names for C extensions has been narrowed.
+ Very rarely used spellings have been suppressed: under POSIX, files
+ named ``xxxmodule.so``, ``xxxmodule.abi3.so`` and
+ ``xxxmodule.cpython-*.so`` are no longer recognized as implementing
+ the ``xxx`` module. If you had been generating such files, you have
+ to switch to the other spellings (i.e., remove the ``module`` string
+ from the file names).
+
+ (implemented in :issue:`14040`.)
+
+
Other issues
------------
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index d9ad8fc..6e010b7 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -10,6 +10,9 @@
Core and Builtins
-----------------
+- Issue #14040: Remove rarely used file name suffixes for C extensions
+ (under POSIX mainly).
+
- Issue #14051: Allow arbitrary attributes to be set of classmethod and
staticmethod.
diff --git a/Python/dynload_aix.c b/Python/dynload_aix.c
index 6287c86..8346f06 100644
--- a/Python/dynload_aix.c
+++ b/Python/dynload_aix.c
@@ -28,7 +28,6 @@
const struct filedescr _PyImport_DynLoadFiletab[] = {
{".so", "rb", C_EXTENSION},
- {"module.so", "rb", C_EXTENSION},
{0, 0}
};
diff --git a/Python/dynload_dl.c b/Python/dynload_dl.c
index 37519b2..a914a08 100644
--- a/Python/dynload_dl.c
+++ b/Python/dynload_dl.c
@@ -11,7 +11,6 @@
const struct filedescr _PyImport_DynLoadFiletab[] = {
{".o", "rb", C_EXTENSION},
- {"module.o", "rb", C_EXTENSION},
{0, 0}
};
diff --git a/Python/dynload_hpux.c b/Python/dynload_hpux.c
index 3ebbbad..1004010 100644
--- a/Python/dynload_hpux.c
+++ b/Python/dynload_hpux.c
@@ -15,7 +15,6 @@
const struct filedescr _PyImport_DynLoadFiletab[] = {
{SHLIB_EXT, "rb", C_EXTENSION},
- {"module"SHLIB_EXT, "rb", C_EXTENSION},
{0, 0}
};
diff --git a/Python/dynload_next.c b/Python/dynload_next.c
index eb17950..5caff8b 100644
--- a/Python/dynload_next.c
+++ b/Python/dynload_next.c
@@ -10,7 +10,6 @@
const struct filedescr _PyImport_DynLoadFiletab[] = {
{".so", "rb", C_EXTENSION},
- {"module.so", "rb", C_EXTENSION},
{0, 0}
};
diff --git a/Python/dynload_shlib.c b/Python/dynload_shlib.c
index 1c215c3..ab24238 100644
--- a/Python/dynload_shlib.c
+++ b/Python/dynload_shlib.c
@@ -39,7 +39,6 @@
const struct filedescr _PyImport_DynLoadFiletab[] = {
#ifdef __CYGWIN__
{".dll", "rb", C_EXTENSION},
- {"module.dll", "rb", C_EXTENSION},
#else /* !__CYGWIN__ */
#if defined(PYOS_OS2) && defined(PYCC_GCC)
{".pyd", "rb", C_EXTENSION},
@@ -48,15 +47,10 @@
#ifdef __VMS
{".exe", "rb", C_EXTENSION},
{".EXE", "rb", C_EXTENSION},
- {"module.exe", "rb", C_EXTENSION},
- {"MODULE.EXE", "rb", C_EXTENSION},
#else /* !__VMS */
{"." SOABI ".so", "rb", C_EXTENSION},
- {"module." SOABI ".so", "rb", C_EXTENSION},
{".abi" PYTHON_ABI_STRING ".so", "rb", C_EXTENSION},
- {"module.abi" PYTHON_ABI_STRING ".so", "rb", C_EXTENSION},
{".so", "rb", C_EXTENSION},
- {"module.so", "rb", C_EXTENSION},
#endif /* __VMS */
#endif /* defined(PYOS_OS2) && defined(PYCC_GCC) */
#endif /* __CYGWIN__ */