proposal: add setresuid() system call to python

Robert Kern robert.kern at gmail.com
Fri Jul 17 16:15:35 EDT 2009


On 2009-07-17 15:01, travis+ml-python at subspacefield.org wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Historically, I have used scripting languages like python for typical
> uses, but they tend to not fare very well at system programming; for
> close interfacing with the operating system, I'm often forced to use a
> language like C.  This is undesirable to me.

You can use ctypes for most of these use cases.

-- 
Robert Kern

"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
  that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
  an underlying truth."
   -- Umberto Eco




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