[Python-Dev] ctypes compatibility with 2.3

[Brett Cannon]

On Wed, 11 May 2016 at 09:07 Thomas Heller <theller at ctypes.org> wrote:

> Am 11.05.2016 um 18:04 schrieb Brett Cannon:
> >
> >
> > On Wed, 11 May 2016 at 04:35 Thomas Heller <theller at ctypes.org
> > <mailto:theller at ctypes.org>> wrote:
> >
> >     Am 10.05.2016 um 19:39 schrieb Brett Cannon:
> >     >
> >     >
> >     > On Tue, 10 May 2016 at 01:18 Martin Panter <vadmium+py at gmail.com
> >     <mailto:vadmium%2Bpy at gmail.com>
> >     > <mailto:vadmium%2Bpy at gmail.com <mailto:vadmium%252Bpy at gmail.com>>>
> >     wrote:
> >     >
> >     >     I am working on <https://bugs.python.org/issue22636>, to fix
> shell
> >     >     injection problems with ctypes.util.find_library(). The
> >     proposal for
> >     >     Python 3 is to change os.popen(shell-script) calls to use
> >     >     subprocess.Popen().
> >     >
> >     >     However the Python 2.7 version of the module has a comment
> >     which says
> >     >     “This file should be kept compatible with Python 2.3, see PEP
> >     291.”
> >     >     Looking at <https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0291/>, it is
> not
> >     >     clear why we have to maintain this compatibility. My best
> guess is
> >     >     that there may be an external ctypes package that people
> >     want(ed) to
> >     >     keep compatible with 2.3, and also keep synchronized with 2.7.
> >     >
> >     >
> >     > That's correct and the maintainer is/was Thomas Heller who I have
> >     cc'ed
> >     > to see if he's okay with lifting the restriction.
> >
> >     For me it is totally ok to lift this restriction.
> >
> >
> > Great! I'll also update PEP 291.
>
> Cool.  While you're at it, the compatibility restriction for
> modulefinder could also be lifted.
>

Will do.
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