[Python-Dev] PEP 384 status

[Nick Coghlan]

On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 2:15 PM, Mark Hammond <skippy.hammond at gmail.com> wrote:
> It would be interesting to know how, in practice, these FILE pointers come
> to life.  In my experience they are generally obtained via fopen. If that is
> broadly true, then a middle-ground may be for Python to expose something
> like Py_fopen, Py_fclose and a PyFILE opaque "handle".  API elements which
> currently take a FILE * could be exposed using a PyFILE * in the ABI.
>  People who didn't care about this level of portability could continue to
> use the non-ABI FILE * functions, but people who do could use
> Py_fopen/Py_fclose in place of fopen/fclose but otherwise work as now.

No need for that - the Python-specific equivalent is our own I/O stack
(and things like os.fdopen).

Cheers,
Nick.

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