[stdlib-sig] gestalt, too?

Brett Cannon brett at python.org
Tue May 13 23:00:10 CEST 2008


On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 4:25 AM, Ronald Oussoren <ronaldoussoren at mac.com> wrote:
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>  On 13 May, 2008, at 13:03, Leonardo Santagada wrote:
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>
> >
> > On 13/05/2008, at 07:30, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
> >
> > > Either way, I'm -1 on removing the gestalt API, since it's needed
> > > by platform.py and there doesn't appear to be an alternative for getting
> > > at certain config information on Mac OS (but don't really care whether
> > > it's implemented as C module or using ctypes ;-).
> > >
> >
> >
> > What happened to the idea of making it a ctypes module?
> >
>
>  AFAIK there is are no such plans.
>
>
>
> > I'm very much in favor to all non performance critical parts of python be
> in a more portable and easier to maintain code.
> >
>
>  I'm -1 on rewriting it as a ctypes module. The existing C implementation
> works just fine, rewriting it in Python is just more work without clear
> advantages.
>

Then why did you attach a ctypes implementation two days ago?

-Brett


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