[Python-ideas] win32 extensions

[Massimo Di Pierro]

For me the only reason win32 is important is to implement a cross-platform file locking.
I did not mean to propose web32 should be included but a portable file locking api would be useful.

Massimo

On Sep 13, 2011, at 10:00 PM, Brian Curtin wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 21:28, Matt Joiner <anacrolix at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Do we really need to be encouraging use of Windows APIs in Python?
> 
> I don't think we're encouraging anything, nor do I think we need to.
> People have already been doing so for quite some time - it's a fact of
> life.
> 
> If I want to write a tool which uses Windows' ReadDirectoryChangesW
> API, how do I do that today? I either write a C extension (which I've
> done), or I use pywin32. I must be missing something, because your
> question comes off as saying "don't solve that problem".
> 
>> Given the greater user base of Windows, is there a danger this could
>> encourage the littering of Windows-only "workarounds" in many
>> projects?
> 
> I don't think the inclusion of this package is going to enlighten
> people on the ability to make platform specific workarounds in their
> code. They've already been doing this with pywin32 or extension
> modules where necessary, and I don't think that's a such bad thing.
> Obviously it's great when Python provides a way to solve a
> cross-platform problem with one solution, e.g., listing directory
> contents, but it's not all sunshine and rainbows. Sometimes working
> with those contents requires a platform specific operation.
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