Simon Brunning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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.
Right. > 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. To me, this sounds that *at least* a PEP would be needed to convince Guido. Or, to record the reasoning why it cannot be included. Thomas -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
