Modules for inclusion in standard library?

[Thomas Heller]

Simon Brunning <simon.brunning at gmail.com> writes:

> On 6/28/05, John Roth <newsgroups at jhrothjr.com> wrote:
>> I'd definitely like to see ctypes. I can agree with the segfault
>> issue, but I think that some design work would eliminate that.
>
> I'm not sure that it would. Ctypes allows you, as one colleague
> memorably put it, to "poke the operating system with a stick". You are
> always going to be able to use ctypes to provoke spectacular crashes
> of the kind that you can never get with 'ordinary' Python.

Right.

> Having said that, I'd like to see ctypes in the standard library
> anyway, with a suitably intimidating warning in the docs about the
> trouble you can get yourself into with it.

To me, this sounds that *at least* a PEP would be needed to convince
Guido.  Or, to record the reasoning why it cannot be included.

Thomas