[Python-Dev] Replacing PyWin32's PeekNamedPipe, ReadFile, and WriteFile

[Jean-Paul Calderone]

On Thu, 23 Jul 2009 14:21:38 +0200, Christian Heimes <lists at cheimes.de> wrote:
>Michael Foord wrote:
>> A big advantage of using ctypes is that it works cross-implementation -
>> on IronPython and PyPy already and on Jython soon. I'd like to see more
>> standard library modules use it. Distributions that choose not to
>> include it are crippling their Python distribution.
>
>Interesting, I didn't know that IronPython supports ctypes, too. I still
>find ctypes a bit problematic because it doesn't us header files for its
>types, structs and function definitions.

This is indeed a big problem with ctypes.  Fortunately, a project exists
to correct it:

    http://pypi.python.org/pypi/ctypes_configure/0.1

Anyone writing code with ctypes should be looking at ctypes_configure as
well.

Jean-Paul