[Armin Rigo Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 01:18:00PM +0100]
Hello,
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 05:48:42PM +0100, Samuele Pedroni wrote:
OTOH I think a higher level of abstraction is necessary to targert more general backends.
I agree with Samuele that we should not focus on ctypes or any other kind of structs right now. For all of ctypes' power I believe that it is not central to Python-in-Python. This will become important later, when we target C.
how do you intend to use any of the existing C-libraries, then? Rely on CPython to provide the binding? I think that progressing in the ctypes direction can happen in parallel with Python-Core pythonifications. Beeing able to make C-library calls (like File-IO) without specialized intermediate C-code does seem like an important feature. holger