[python-committers] Redoing the C API? (was: Call For Participants For The 2016 Python Language Summit)

[Eric Snow]

On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 10:39 AM, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:
> But I do think the spirit of Victor's idea is worth considering.

+1

> ...what would we need to do to our C API to make
> it so that anyone following a new API wouldn't be broken if we dropped the
> GIL?

If I recall correctly, this was one key topic that Larry discussed at
the language summit latest year.

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>> As for integrating cffi into the stdlib, it seems to be doing fine as a
>> third-party library.
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> It is doing fine as an external library, but if something as radical as
> heavily trimming back and/or rewriting the C API occurs then having CFFI in
> the stdlib to evolve with the internal C changes makes sense. I think that's
> where the thought of pulling CFFI in the stdlib stems from.

At least part of the motivation was to deprecate/remove ctypes and
replace it in the stdlib with CFFI.

-eric