Is Boost Python version 2 ready?

David Abrahams david.abrahams at rcn.com
Fri Sep 27 21:44:33 EDT 2002


From: "Christian Tismer" <tismer at tismer.com>


> David Abrahams wrote:
> > From: "Christian Tismer" <tismer at tismer.com>
> >
> >>I have been asked whether Boost will be compatible with
> >>Stackless (or vice versa:).
> >>Who else could answer that better than you?
> >
> >
> > Well, I have never tested it with Stackless, but in the end it only does
> > "ordinary extension module stuff". What is it, precisely, you need to
watch
> > out for? Something about callbacks from C++ into Python with data on the
> > stack?
>
> Exactly :-)
> Probably nothing you would do unless enforced to?

AFAIK I'm never doing that myself. It's possible for someone to write a
construct in an extension module that does that, but they'd have to go out
of their way to shoot themselves in the foot.

HTH,
Dave

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