[Samuele Pedroni Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 08:03:40PM +0100]
----- Original Message ----- From: "holger krekel" <hpk@trillke.net> To: "Armin Rigo" <arigo@tunes.org>; <pypy-dev@codespeak.net> Sent: Monday, January 27, 2003 6:00 PM Subject: Re: [pypy-dev] Builtin types
[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.
The point was whether you want your builtin types "abstractions" to be directly ctypes based.
I took Armins posting more generally as not to do anything with ctypes at all. If we are only talking about how to represent types, then i agree that we shouldn't base this on ctypes now. holger