On Jun 12, 8:11 am, "Martin v. Loewis" <mar...@v.loewis.de> wrote:
> > Got me thinking, is it perhaps doable to have a 'safe' ctype that is > > guaranteed to be in the stdlib? Perhaps crippling it in a sense that it > > only allows a known set of functions to be called? > > In some sense, a C module wrapping a selected number of functions > (like the win32 extensions) is exactly that. > > Notice that it's not (only) the functions itself, but also the > parameters. It's absolutely easy to crash Python by calling a function > through ctypes that expects a pointer, and you pass an integer. The > machine code will dereference the pointer (trusting that it actually is > one), and crash. what's so bad about that? (this is a genuine, non-hostile, non- rhetorical, non-sarcastic question). (if the answer is "because you can't catch a segfault as a python exception", then the question is repeated) l. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
