[Python-Dev] Any PEP about 2.6 -> 3000 code transition?

Hrvoje Nikšić hrvoje.niksic at avl.com
Wed Aug 13 15:27:42 CEST 2008


On Wed, 2008-08-13 at 22:20 +1000, Anthony Baxter wrote:
> Last time I looked at it, the C API wasn't nailed down yet. That's why
> I passed over it entirely for my tutorial. The only advice I was able
> to give was that if your extension is just a wrapper around existing C
> code, you might be better off rewriting it using ctypes.

Given that ctypes doesn't work on a number of popular architectures,
including x86_64 (the last time I looked), I'd hardly call that "better
off".  :-(



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