Python is just as good as C++ for real apps

[Chris Liechti]

"Thomas Heller" <thomas.heller at ion-tof.com> wrote in
news:a36j1b$15eigm$1 at ID-59885.news.dfncis.de: 
> What would you think about python plus raw pointers included?

crashes? direct access to memory can be practical but is very error 
prone...

> The ability to create/manipulate C-type structures in Python?

thats a thing i needed last week in some way. i made an extension 
module that has tables with offsets, sizes, types and names of the 
structure members.
a python module wraps those info and makes it possible to access the 
data like: "value = board.member.array[3].data.read()" etc. (the read 
could have been optimized away. the struct module does it thing to 
pack the data in strings to pass to the io functions, but that is 
completely transparent for the user.)

(i don't needed to write to the memory directly, but instead call a 
function with offset and data, which reads/writes to a PCI card.)
 
> This is a toy project of mine, it would at least allow to wrap
> C interfaces in python, without a compiler.

well the "without compiler" is nice but not easy.. some compilers have 
nasty alignment rules. because of that i wrote the extension module 
instead of parsing the header file directly. (the module is generated 
automaticaly from the .h file)

chris

> Thomas
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