Am 10.08.2010 09:06, schrieb Ulrich Eckhardt: > Carl Banks wrote: >> I highly doubt the Python source would build with a C++ compiler. > > As Christian showed, it doesn't. However, look around the sources a bit. > There are lots of places where e.g. the returnvalue of malloc() (or, > rather, the macro that resolves to something like it) is explicitly > type-cast to the according pointer type. When asked on the developers' > list, it was said that this was intended for compatibility with C++, e.g. > in cases where people want to embed Python into their C++ projects. Of > course, this contradicts Christian's statement that C++ compatibility > wasn't considered useful enough.
It doesn't contradict at all. In order to embed Python into a C++ application, it is sufficient if the Python header files can be compiled with a C++ compiler, and linking to the C function works properly - which is indeed the case. People integrate Python with C++ quite often, both for embedding it into C++, and for writing extension modules in C++. Regards, Martin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
