> I'd like to better understand why ctypes is (sometimes) frowned upon. > > Is it the brittleness? Tendency to segfault?
That, and Python should work completely if ctypes is not available. > FWIW, I have a partial implementation of a module that does xz from > Python using ctypes. So does it work on Sparc/Solaris? On OpenBSD? On ARM-Linux? Does it work if the xz library is installed into /opt/sfw/xz? 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
