[Python-Dev] Include ctypes into core Python?

[Michael Hudson]

Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> writes:

> On 1/10/06, Thomas Wouters <thomas at xs4all.net> wrote:
>> Sorry, I missed the point I was aiming at, I guess. I wasn't aiming for
>> fixable bugs; I see these things as, with great effort, holding up your foot
>> at an awkward angle so that it ends up right at the business end of your
>> primed and lit medieval cannon. We can jump through hoops to stop those
>> particular examples, but I'd rather spend time and effort to fix *real* bugs
>> instead.
>
> I'm not sure what makes those particular examples less than real bugs.

I think the sys.setrecursionlimit(1<<30) one is fairly well into the
terriotory of "don't do that", isn't it?

Cheers,
mwh

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