On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 2:15 PM, Mark Hammond
It would be interesting to know how, in practice, these FILE pointers come to life. In my experience they are generally obtained via fopen. If that is broadly true, then a middle-ground may be for Python to expose something like Py_fopen, Py_fclose and a PyFILE opaque "handle". API elements which currently take a FILE * could be exposed using a PyFILE * in the ABI. People who didn't care about this level of portability could continue to use the non-ABI FILE * functions, but people who do could use Py_fopen/Py_fclose in place of fopen/fclose but otherwise work as now.
No need for that - the Python-specific equivalent is our own I/O stack (and things like os.fdopen). Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia