[Python-Dev] PEP: Adding data-type objects to Python

["Martin v. Löwis"]

Robert Kern schrieb:
>> As I unification mechanism, I think it is insufficient. I doubt it
>> can express all the concepts that ctypes supports.
> 
> What do you think is missing that can't be added?

I can factually only report what is missing. Whether it can be added,
I don't know. As I just wrote in a few other messages: pointers,
unions, functions pointers, packed structs, incomplete/recursive
types. Also "flexible array members" (i.e. open-ended arrays).

While it may be possible to come up with a string syntax to describe
all these things (*), I wonder whether it should be done, and whether
NumArray can then support this extended data model.

Regards,
Martin

(*) perhaps with the exception of incomplete types: C needs forward
references in its own syntax.