[Python-Dev] Include ctypes into core Python?

[Ronald Oussoren]

On 11-jan-2006, at 7:59, Thomas Heller wrote:
>>
>>> I'm of the opinion that having a big red
>>> warning at the top of the module documentation that this is a
>>> contributed module, and incorrect use could cause segmentation
>>> faults/crashes, etc would be sufficient.
>>
>> Works for me.
>
> Another possibility would be to emit a warning when the module (dl or
> ctypes, if included) is imported.
>
> warnings.warn("Incorrect usage of this module may crash Python",
>               RuntimeWarning, stacklevel=2)

Yuck. Just adding a warning to the documentation should be good  
enough. Other modules allow you to make your machine unuseable (such  
a fork bomb using os.fork) and those don't warn either.

Ronald

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