[Python-Dev] Addition of "pyprocessing" module to standard lib.

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Thu May 22 09:08:18 CEST 2008


>> Writing portable ctypes modules is really hard - significantly harder
>> than writing portable C code (although writing non-portable ctypes
>> code is apparently easier than writing non-portable C code).
> 
> I would say that writing portable C code is hard as well, aren't there
> just more tools that help?

The C compiler in particular. It already gets symbolic constants and
struct layouts right, something that ctypes can't do (because it doesn't
use header files).

Regards,
Martin


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