Calling foreign functions from Python? ctypes?

[Carl Friedrich Bolz]

Jean-Paul Calderone wrote:
> 
> I could probably dig up a few more, if you want.  So what's ctypes on top of this?
> 

another one:

cfbolz at gauss:~$ python
Python 2.4.2 (#2, Sep 30 2005, 21:19:01)
[GCC 4.0.2 20050808 (prerelease) (Ubuntu 4.0.1-4ubuntu8)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
 >>> import weakref
 >>> ref = None
 >>> class Target:
...     def __del__(self):
...         global ref
...         ref = weakref.ref(self)
...
 >>> def g():
...     w = Target()
...     w = None
...     print ref()
...
 >>> g()
Segmentation fault

There are dozends of segfaults in Python indeed.

Cheers,

Carl Friedrich Bolz