On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 2:15 PM, Mark Hammond <skippy.hammond@gmail.com> wrote:
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