I'd like to focus this issue; it has been open long enough, and deserves to get closed once the original issue is resolved - which was that "make smelly" reports symbols. I think dmalcolm's patch is quite a good start for that.

It may well be that other modules need to be considered - but PLEASE not in this issue. For Unix with shared libraries, the extension modules certainly cause problems, in particular if Python gets embedded in a context (e.g. Apache) that also loads separate copies of the same libraries, and may cause problems if one of our functions collide with some library. However, I see *two* issues falling out of this: one to extend the "make smelly" target to include extension modules, and the other to then fix the extension modules - preferably with one issue per extension module.