On Wed, Nov 21, 2018, at 06:53, Matěj Cepl wrote: > On 2018-11-19, 11:59 GMT, Stefan Krah wrote: > > In practice people desperately *have* to use whatever is > > there, including functions with underscores that are not even > > officially in the C-API. > > Yes, there are some functions which evaporated and I have never > heard a reason why and how I am supposed to overcome their > removal. E.g., when porting M2Crypto to Python3 I had to > reimplement my own (bad) version of `FILE* > PyFile_AsFile(PyObject *pyfile)` function > (https://is.gd/tgQGDw). I think it is obvious why it is > necessary for C bindings, and I have never found a way how to > get the underlying FILE handle from the Python File object > properly.
In Python 3, there is no underlying FILE* because the io module is implemented using fds directly rather than C stdio. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
