On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 4:13 PM, Maciej Fijalkowski <fijall@gmail.com> wrote:
I would like to discuss on the language summit a potential inclusion of cffi[1] into stdlib. This is a project Armin Rigo has been working for a while, with some input from other developers. It seems that the main reason why people would prefer ctypes over cffi these days is "because it's included in stdlib", which is not generally the reason I would like to hear. Our calls to not use C extensions and to use an FFI instead has seen very limited success with ctypes and quite a lot more since cffi got released. The API is fairly stable right now with minor changes going in and it'll definitely stablize until Python 3.4 release.
I think this would be great to have in the stdlib. I think it's useful to note that PyPy is planning to include this in their stdlib for the next release, too, right? Cheers, Dirkjan