[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
    Ulrich> Having the ctypes extension in the stdlib doesn't imply it runs
Ulrich> on any platform where python runs.
Maybe the presence of a functioning ctypes (can|might|should|will) become
the operational definition of "Python runs on platform X".

And what about platforms like the JVM or CLR?

Incidentally there were a small but vocal group of Pythonistas who were (are?) certain that IronPython is not Python because it doesn't have [all of...] the C extensions.

Michael Foord

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