No loadable SQlite extensions in Python 2.7

[Panu Matilainen]

On 04/21/2012 09:27 AM, Volker Froehlich wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-04-20 at 17:14 -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
>> On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 12:46:38AM +0200, Volker Froehlich wrote:
>>> Hello!
>>>
>>> I noticed, our Python 2.7 package does not allow to load SQLite
>>> extensions from shared libraries. This must be configured at
>>> build-time.
>>>
>>> Is there a strong reason for this configuration, or could we possibly
>>> change that, if necessary?
>>>
>> Not sure what you're asking for here.
>>
>> $ python
>>
>>>>> import sqlite3
>>>>>
>>
>>
>> $ rpm -ql python-libs |grep sqlite3.so
>> /usr/lib64/python2.7/lib-dynload/_sqlite3.so
>>
>> The sqlite module seems to be built into our python just fine....
>>
>> -Toshio
>
> Yes, that's all fine, but:
>
> "Connection.enable_load_extension(enabled)
>
>          This routine allows/disallows the SQLite engine to load SQLite
>          extensions from shared libraries. SQLite extensions can define
>          new functions, aggregates or whole new virtual table
>          implementations. One well-known extension is the fulltext-search
>          extension distributed with SQLite.
>
>          Loadable extensions are disabled by default. See [1].
>
>          New in version 2.7.
> "
>
> http://docs.python.org/library/sqlite3.html#f1

sqlite in Fedora has been built with --enable-load-extension since 2008, 
so from that POV there's no problem.

File a bug on python to request enabling it?

	- Panu -