What does deactivate do?

[skip at pobox.com]

I deactivated the sqlite3 port on my Mac today because of some problems with
the Python regression test suite.  It deactivated okay.  I was still able to
import sqlite3 in /opt/local/bin/python2.5 though:


    % /opt/local/bin/python2.5
    Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, Feb  2 2008, 08:44:29) 
    [GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Inc. build 5465)] on darwin
    Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
    >>> import sqlite3
    >>> sqlite3.version
    '2.3.2'
    >>> sqlite3.version, sqlite3.sqlite_version
    ('2.3.2', '3.4.0')
    >>> sqlite3.__file__
    '/opt/local/lib/python2.5/sqlite3/__init__.pyc'
    >>> import _sqlite3
    >>> _sqlite3.__file__
    '/opt/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/_sqlite3.so'
    >>> 
    montanaro-dyndns-org:build% otool -L /opt/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/_sqlite3.so
    /opt/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/_sqlite3.so:
            /opt/local/lib/libsqlite3.0.dylib (compatibility version 9.0.0, current version 9.6.0)
            /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 111.0.0)
    % ls -l /opt/local/lib/libsqlite3*
    ls: /opt/local/lib/libsqlite3*: No such file or directory

What's up with that?  How can the _sqlite3.so shared library reference it
when it doesn't exist?

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