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I have written a Python module in C++ and built it as a shared object library and it worked fine. But while figuring all that out, I noticed (via strace) that Python looks for a few different variations import is called. In particular, when I say import foo , Python searches for, in order: foo (a directory) foo.so foomodule.so foo.py foo.pyc This was all pretty understandable except for foomodule.so. Why does Python look for everything both as name.so and namemodule.so? Is it some historical artifact? I searched quite a bit and came up with no explanation at all, and am left wondering if I should name my module foomodule.so instead of foo.so. My system seems to have some existing Python modules following each convention, so I can't help but wonder if the different names imply something.
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