On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 2:15 PM, Mark Hammond <skippy.hamm...@gmail.com> wrote: > It would be interesting to know how, in practice, these FILE pointers come > to life. In my experience they are generally obtained via fopen. If that is > broadly true, then a middle-ground may be for Python to expose something > like Py_fopen, Py_fclose and a PyFILE opaque "handle". API elements which > currently take a FILE * could be exposed using a PyFILE * in the ABI. > People who didn't care about this level of portability could continue to > use the non-ABI FILE * functions, but people who do could use > Py_fopen/Py_fclose in place of fopen/fclose but otherwise work as now.
No need for that - the Python-specific equivalent is our own I/O stack (and things like os.fdopen). Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia _______________________________________________ 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
