Cargo Features
[dependencies]
python27-sys = { version = "0.7.0", default-features = false, features = ["python-2-7", "extension-module"] }- default = python-2-7
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This is examined by ./build.rs to determine which python version to try to bind to.
According to PEP 404 there will never be a python 2.8, but maybe one day we could try to support < 2.7 ?
Similarly functionality is duplicated in python3-sys/Cargo.toml where supporting multiple 3.x's is more important. - python-2-7 default
- extension-module
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Use this feature when building an extension module.
It tells the linker to keep the python symbols unresolved,
so that the module can also be used with statically linked python interpreters.