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

[Terry Reedy]

Lisandro Dalcin wrote:
> 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 ??

I believe someone just posted that PyPy and IronPython have ctypes and 
Jython is working on it. That is what triggered this post.