ctypes And The WACAH Principle

Chris Angelico rosuav at gmail.com
Wed Aug 10 18:42:45 EDT 2016


On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 8:31 AM, Gregory Ewing
<greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
> Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
>
>>> It will let you create non-leaky wrappers ...
>>
>>
>> Why would I want to do that?
>
>
> You mentioned that ctypes wrappers are leaky, which I
> assumed was meant as a criticism. But if you *like*
> your wrappers to be leaky, by all means go for it. :-)

Are they leaky in the sense of leaky abstractions, or memory leaks?

ChrisA



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