Calling foreign functions from Python? ctypes?

["Martin v. Löwis"]

Thomas Heller wrote:
> It has been proposed to include it in core Python, but Guido didn't
> accept it.  The thread starts here:
> 
> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2004-January/thread.html#41814
> 
> And Guido's last word was this (see the end of the message):
> 
> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2004-January/041856.html

He didn't accept it - he didn't reject it, either.

Notice that this thread did *not* propose to include ctypes: instead,
it suggested to include ctypes *in order to implement _winreg*.

This is something completely different, and this is what Guido
rejected: Implementing _winreg with ctypes is indeed a bad idea,
IMO. Whether or not ctypes should be included is a different story.

Regards,
Martin