Bengt Richter <bokr@oz.net> writes: [description of ctypes internal deleted]
It does sound like a lot of similar ground is covered. Are your offset and size values in bits or bytes? (I intended bits).
Currently they measure in bytes, but only because I didn't have a need for bit fields in structs or unions.
The thing I think would be cool is if one could write python to build meta_repr objects in python and have Psyco compile Python code manipulating those representations and wind up with machine code effectively equivalent to what the C code in your ctypes module does when given the same implicit abstract info defining fields and accessors etc., and code using those.
The thing about the latter situation is that Psyco would still see code accessing a foreign interface to getfunc/setfunc, whereas if it sees Python code actually accessing the data meta-representations behind getfunc/setfunc, it has a chance to bypass function calls and generate inline machine code instead of using your canned functions. Probably a loss at first, but eventually it could be a gain, depending on Psyco?
Maybe. We'll see ;-) All great ideas in the air! Thomas