diff --git a/Misc/FAQ b/Misc/FAQ index 5a34c7f493a..6a7e645bed7 100644 --- a/Misc/FAQ +++ b/Misc/FAQ @@ -790,6 +790,10 @@ so that the following links are setup: /lib/libdl.so -> /lib/libdl.so.1 /lib/libdl.so.1 -> /lib/libdl.so.1.7.14 +You may have to rerun the configure script, after rm'ing the +config.cache file, before you attempt to rebuild python after this +fix. + 3.13. Q: Trouble when making modules shared on Linux. A. This happens when you have built Python for static linking and then @@ -930,6 +934,12 @@ wrapper around a built-in object, e.g. (for dictionaries): def values(self): return self.data.values() def has_key(self, key): return self.data.has_key(key) +A2. See Jim Fulton's ExtensionClass for an example of a mechanism +which allows you to have superclasses which you can inherit from in +Python -- that way you can have some methods from a C superclass (call +it a mixin) and some methods from either a Python superclass or your +subclass. See . + 4.3. Q. Is there a curses/termcap package for Python? A. Yes -- Lance Ellinghaus has written a module that interfaces to