[Python-Dev] LZMA compression support in 3.3

[Nick Coghlan]

On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 1:58 AM, Nadeem Vawda <nadeem.vawda at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 5:52 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
>> It's acceptable for the Python version to use ctypes in the case of
>> wrapping an existing library, but the Python version should still
>> exist.
>
> I'm not too sure about that - PEP 399 explicitly says that using ctypes is
> frowned upon, and doesn't mention anywhere that it should be used in this
> sort of situation.

Note to self: do not comment on python-dev at 2 am, as one's ability
to read PEPs correctly apparently suffers :)

Consider my comment withdrawn, you're quite right that PEP 399
actually says this is precisely the case where an exemption is a
reasonable idea. Although I believe it's likely that PyPy will wrap it
with ctypes anyway :)

Cheers,
Nick.

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