Christian Tismer wrote: ... A small addition:
I'm not really understanding what you're proposing here.
I am trying to extend the new-style classes that includes ctypes, somehow.
You could look at ctypes as implementing 'typed slots' with C-compatible layout. ...
This is maybe also something that ctypes already does. The B *class* above knows all about this C structure
struct B { char x; int y; long long z; };
Ok, what I was thinking of was to use ctypes or something similar to describe structs, and then to build all objects on top of this. This means that details like type pointer and reference counts go into this definiton as well, together with their behavior, and we are able to try different approaches as well. Probably this idea is trivial, and you though this way all the time. ciao - chris -- Christian Tismer :^) <mailto:tismer@tismer.com> Mission Impossible 5oftware : Have a break! Take a ride on Python's Johannes-Niemeyer-Weg 9a : *Starship* http://starship.python.net/ 14109 Berlin : PGP key -> http://wwwkeys.pgp.net/ work +49 30 89 09 53 34 home +49 30 802 86 56 pager +49 173 24 18 776 PGP 0x57F3BF04 9064 F4E1 D754 C2FF 1619 305B C09C 5A3B 57F3 BF04 whom do you want to sponsor today? http://www.stackless.com/