ctypes news (was Re: [pypy-dev] __builtin__ module)

[holger krekel]

[Thomas Heller Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 03:41:42PM +0100]
> holger krekel <hpk at trillke.net> writes:
> 
> > Anyway, I would try very hard to express all the builtins in python. 
> > And i see Thomas Heller's ctypes approach as a way to make 
> > this possible.
> 
> So do I ;-) ;-), although I'm have no idea where to begin.
> Construct a new Python type by assembling the type structure
> completely as a ctypes type?

Hmm, that's one of my black areas in current CPython: the type
system.  I admit it's a rather large one :-)

But wouldn't using a ctypes represenation of Python types only 
be neccessary when interfacing with CPython C stuff?

IMV the 'chr' function could be implemented at 'interpreter level'
and have representation-optimized access methods.  So if a
PyString had a ctype as its 'array' (is that possible today?) 
then effectively an assembler intruction fetching one byte
and using that as a representation for a PyInt object 
might do it.   I am trying to use the terms from previous
discussions.  But unless i coded some of that myself i am
sure that i am not completly making sense ....

> Here are some news on ctypes:
> 
> Development has has moved to SF: http://sourceforge.net/projects/ctypes.

Thomas, can you imagine the forthcoming pypy-repository and your ctypes-repo
to merge at some point?  CTypes would of course still have its own directory 
and could be separately tagged etc. 

Here, I am already thinking about how we can actually
manage our upcoming coding at the Sprint.  I think that
having "everything neccessary" in one repo would be quite
convenient.  

regards,

    holger