On 6/28/05, John Roth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'd definitely like to see ctypes. I can agree with the segfault > issue, but I think that some design work would eliminate that.
I'm not sure that it would. Ctypes allows you, as one colleague memorably put it, to "poke the operating system with a stick". You are always going to be able to use ctypes to provoke spectacular crashes of the kind that you can never get with 'ordinary' Python. Having said that, I'd like to see ctypes in the standard library anyway, with a suitably intimidating warning in the docs about the trouble you can get yourself into with it. -- Cheers, Simon B, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.brunningonline.net/simon/blog/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
