[Pythonmac-SIG] Carbon bindings' future

[Daniel Miller]

Hi Ronald,

Will this work (see attached)?

~ Daniel

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On Apr 11, 2008, at 2:05 AM, Ronald Oussoren wrote:
> Folks,
>
> The removal of the Carbon bindings shouldn't  impact the  
> functionality of the rest of the standard library. This means we  
> need to do some work though, because urllib relies on the Carbon  
> bindings to get the current proxy settings.
>
> The best way to fix that (IMO of course) is to write a small C  
> extension that uses the Carbon API's to fetch that data into a  
> dictionary. All code for that is present in the Python source tree,  
> but in Python instead of in C. Hence writing the extension should  
> be easy enough.
>
> Is anyone game for writing this extension?
>
> Ronald
>
>
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