Hello Holger, On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 01:22:55AM +0100, holger krekel wrote:
(...) IMO the complexity of (and dependency on) C source generators could be reduced this way.
Ok. But we must keep all doors open by expressing things abstractedly, like defining classes for C function description. By default, in the "no-op down-translation" obtained by running the Python-in-Python code over CPython, the actual calls are implemented with ctypes. Everything that forces a particular down-translation is bad, even if that particular down-translation seems good. I can think of other cases where we will need a description of C function signatures but not the code that actually call them, e.g. Psyco (for which it will be useful to have some other information as well, like "does the C function have side-effects"). A bientôt, Armin.