[Python-Dev] cffi in stdlib

[Eli Bendersky]

On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 7:42 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 1:13 AM, Maciej Fijalkowski <fijall at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hello.
> >
> > I would like to discuss on the language summit a potential inclusion
> > of cffi[1] into stdlib.
>
> I think cffi is well worth considering as a possible inclusion for
> Python 3.4. (In particular, I'm a fan of the fact it just uses C
> syntax to declare what you're trying to talk to)
>

I'm cautiously +0.5 because I'd really like to see a strong comparison case
being made vs. ctypes. I've used ctypes many times and it was easy and
effortless (well, except the segfaults when wrong argument types are
declared :-). I'll be really interesting in seeing concrete examples that
demonstrate how CFFI is superior.



> If I'm reading the dependencies correctly, we would also need to bring
> Eli Bendersky's pycparser into the stdlib, correct? (not an objection,
> just an observation, although we'd obviously need Eli's explicit
> endorsement for that).
>

Of course I have no problem with this. I obviously signed the contributor
agreement by this point ;-) pycparser depends on David Beazley's PLY
though, so that will have to be pulled in as well.

Eli
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