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+// Copyright (C) 2003 Rational Discovery LLC
+// Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0. (See
+// accompanying file LICENSE_1_0.txt or copy at
+// http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt)
+
+#include <boost/python/module.hpp>
+#include <stdexcept>
+
+using namespace boost::python;
+
+BOOST_PYTHON_MODULE(module_init_exception_ext)
+{
+ throw std::runtime_error("Module init failed");
+}