No loadable SQlite extensions in Python 2.7

[Volker Froehlich]

On Sat, 2012-04-21 at 10:08 +0300, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> 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?

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=814905

Thanks!

> 	- Panu -