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

[Lisandro Dalcin]

On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 5:42 PM, Terry Reedy<tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:
> Lisandro Dalcin wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 9:57 AM, Jean-Paul Calderone<exarkun at divmod.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> True, CPython has C infrastructure.  What about the other Python
>>> runtimes,
>>> though?
>>>
>>
>> Perhaps these other Python runtimes could implement the functionality
>> of PC/_subprocess.c and use ctypes for that ?
>
> Is it sensibly possible to augment a C file with #ifdefs so that it can be
> compiled either as a directly importable module or as a ctypes-accessible
> shared library?
>

Of course it is posible... Moreover, you could likely reuse 100 % of
code intended for ctypes in implementing the extension module calls
intended for Python. Mac OS X could have some issues though (IIUC, .so
ext modules are not the same as .dylib dynamic libs, though perhaps
ctypes can still dlopen() .so files?)

However, how that would help these other Python runtimes without C
infraestructure ??



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