On 11 March 2015 at 17:27, Brett Cannon <br...@python.org> wrote: > I'm going to propose a somewhat controversial idea: let's deprecate the > ctypes module. We now have things like cffi and Cython for people who need > to interface with C code. Both of those projects are maintained. And they > are not overly difficult to work with. All of this seems to match the > reasons we added ctypes in the first place while also being safer to use > than ctypes.
-1. On Windows a huge amount of code uses ctypes to interface with the Windows API. Many of those projects transitioned from pywin32 because that is a big dependency, and a binary build. Not having in-core access to the Windows API would be a huge problem for many projects. Who would rewrite projects like pyreadline or colorama, for example? How would pip (which has to vendor everything and can't include binary dependencies because of its nature) locate the correct windows config file folders without ctypes in core? Paul _______________________________________________ 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
