Python on amd64 is missing module "dl"

[Pavel Pergamenshchik]

On my up-to-date amd64 dapper installation, both python2.3 and python2.4 package have no dl module. i386 has it. Was there a good reason to omit it?

[Matthias Klose (doko)]

not 64bit safe? setup.py reads:

# Dynamic loading module
        if sys.maxint == 0x7fffffff:
        [configure dl module]

[Matthias Klose (doko)]

Rejecting the report. addtional infos from the docs:

"using this module is usually a bad alternative."

\warning{The \module{dl} module bypasses the Python type system and
error handling. If used incorrectly it may cause segmentation faults,
crashes or other incorrect behaviour.}

\note{This module will not work unless
\code{sizeof(int) == sizeof(long) == sizeof(char *)}
If this is not the case, \exception{SystemError} will be raised on
import.}