[pypy-dev] cpyext reference counting and other gc's

[exarkun at twistedmatrix.com]

On 07:09 pm, amauryfa at gmail.com wrote:
>2011/5/2 Dima Tisnek <dimaqq at gmail.com>:
>>Hi Amaury, thanks for a quick reply, btw, which api functions are hard
>>to support in pypy or why some are?
>
>Fortunately, there are not so many of them:
>- PyFile_AsFile(), PyFile_FromFile, because files opened by pypy don't
>use a FILE* (like python3)

Do fdopen(3) and fileno(3) not help here?  I can understand how there 
might be synchronization issues if it were implemented this way... I've 
never used these CPython APIs myself.

You didn't have the memoryview APIs on your list.  Does that mean 
they're easy?  Then can you implement them? ;)

Jean-Paul