Guido van Rossum wrote: > On the other hand it breaks one of the most fundamental Python > guidelines: if you get a core dump (segfault etc.) it's a bug in > Python or in a 3rd party extension, not in *your* Python code. An > exception would have to be made for any code that uses ctypes, as it > is usually trivial to cause core dumps with ctypes (I'd venture it's > hard to avoid them ;-). > > I don't expect this to count against including ctypes; but I do want > it to be dealt with somehow!
I think the strongest point *for* ctypes is the inclusion of dl in the source distribution, which has the very same flaws as ctypes in terms of crashability. So as for dealing with it "somehow": I would make ctypes a dynamically loaded module (ctypes.pyd), so administrators could remove it, and I could also make it a separate option in the Windows installer, so administrators could reject to install it. Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com