[Python-Dev] are CObjects inherently unsafe?

[Guido van Rossum]

> It had occurred to me that you could use this field for this purpose,
> but it hadn't occurred to me that this might have been the *intent* of
> this field.
> 
> Why a void* then?  That's particularly unassertive.  char* would be
> better, surely...

Jim only knows...  Probably a case of mistaken generality. :-)

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)