Calling foreign functions from Python? ctypes?

[Paul Watson]

Neil Hodgson wrote:
>    Paul Watson:
> 
>> Is there any plan to get ctypes batteries into the standard Python build?
> 
> 
>    It is unlikely that ctypes will be included in the standard Python 
> build as it allows unsafe memory access making it much easier to crash 
> Python.

Does extending Python with any C/C++ function not do the same thing?