On 6/12/06, Thomas Heller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I will be happy to say "ctypes is part of Python" (although I *fear* it > is not one of the packages enthusiastically supported by Guido ;-).
I don't plan to use it myself, but I'm very happy that it's in the stdlib since so many people like it. Somebody please update PEP 360 (and PEP 291). > Well, if the compatibility requirements can be retained, at least (ctypes > should currently be compatible with Python 2.3, but that can probably be > raised > to 2.4 when Python 2.5 is officially released, or shortly thereafter). That ought to be indicated in PEP 291 and in the ctypes source code somewhere. > I am *very* thankful for the fixes, the code review, the suggestions, > and the encouragement I got by various python-devers. You're welcome. And we're thankful for your contribution! > I'm even happy > to revert changes by others done by accident (which destroy comatibility > with Python 2.3, for example. Well, there was only one). Please keep in mind that reverting someone else's changes without prior discussion is a very rude thing to do. The proper procedure is to point out their mistake and give them the opportunity to revert it themselves (or defend their change -- so a public discussion can ensue). Disagreements should not be settled by battling checkins; I'd like to see that developers who ignore this rule repeatedly risk having their commit privileges taken away temporarily. -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ 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
