From: Victor Stinner Date: Sat, 11 May 2019 02:10:03 +0000 (+0200) Subject: bpo-21536: Update What's New in Python 3.8 entry (GH-13242) X-Git-Tag: v3.8.0b1~411 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=4ebcd7e2980d650c711d21b93447af39a8604554;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git bpo-21536: Update What's New in Python 3.8 entry (GH-13242) Android still links to libpython. --- diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst index 6bb03422c6bc..58b23211cc67 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst @@ -138,7 +138,8 @@ environment variable, can be set using the new ``./configure --with-trace-refs`` build option. (Contributed by Victor Stinner in :issue:`36465`.) -On Unix, C extensions are no longer linked to libpython. It is now possible +On Unix, C extensions are no longer linked to libpython except on Android. +It is now possible for a statically linked Python to load a C extension built using a shared library Python. (Contributed by Victor Stinner in :issue:`21536`.)