[Python-Dev] Ctypes and the stdlib (was Re: LZMA compression support in 3.3)

[Meador Inge]

On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 11:58 PM, Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:

> Dan, I once had the more or less the same opinion/question as you with
> regard to ctypes, but I now see at least 3 problems.
>
> 1) It seems hard to write it correctly. There are currently 47 open ctypes
> issues, with 9 being feature requests, leaving 38 behavior-related issues.
> Tom Heller has not been able to work on it since the beginning of 2010 and
> has formally withdrawn as maintainer. No one else that I know of has taken
> his place.

I am trying to work through getting these issues resolved.  The hard part so
far has been getting reviews and commits.  The follow patches are awaiting
review (the patch for issue 11241 has been accepted, just not applied):

1. http://bugs.python.org/issue9041
2. http://bugs.python.org/issue9651
3. http://bugs.python.org/issue11241

I am more than happy to keep working through these issues, but I need some
help getting the patches actually applied since I don't have commit rights.

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