[Python-Dev] 2.5 and beyond

[Thomas Heller]

Neal Norwitz schrieb:
> On 7/4/06, Thomas Heller <theller at python.net> wrote:
>>
>> I would like to ask about the possibility to add some improvements to ctypes
>> in Python 2.5, although the feature freeze is now in effect.  Hopefully former
>> third-party libraries can have the freeze relaxed somewhat;-).
> 
> Ok, former third-party libraries get a 1e-308 reprieve. :-)
> 
> I think the general answer is to plan some way that you could make an
> external release to support the other communities like numpy.  I don't
> know the details, but I believe Barry does this with email.  This
> would allow Python to be more stable, but allow additional features
> for the communities that are interested in installing an additional
> ctypes release.
> 
>> I intend to do these changes, the first is a small and trivial one, but allows
>> a lot of flexibility:
>>
>> - Remove the restriction that the argtypes attribute of foreign functions must
>>   be ctypes types.  Instead they are only required to implement a .from_param
>>   class method.
> 
> This patch is ok.  I will add comments to the patch on SF.

Patch 1517790 is now committed, thanks.

>> The second one is more involved, and not yet complete.  I can post the patch
>> or a link to it for review when it is implemented completely:
>>
>> - Implement the __array_struct__ attribute as describes by the numpy pep at
>>   http://numpy.scipy.org/array_interface.html.
> 
> This is too much to add to a beta.  Perhaps you could work on a branch
> to add these features and integrate the branch back in after 2.5 has
> been released.  You could make an external release from the branch.

We will see how this works out.  Not what I expected to hear, but I'm sure
it is a wise decision.

Thanks,
Thomas