Python Operating System

Diez B. Roggisch deets at nospam.web.de
Mon Dec 11 15:50:35 EST 2006


Richard Jones schrieb:
> Diez B. Roggisch wrote:
>> Python has no notion of pointers
> 
> See:
> 
>     http://docs.python.org/lib/module-ctypes.html
> 
> In particular:
> 
>     http://docs.python.org/lib/ctypes-pointers.html

Certainly cool, yet not too helpful for writing an interrupt handler 
that needs to run lightning fast & without prior GIL acquisition.

Also PyPy with RPython might someday add much to the low-level 
programming capabilities, but a pure Python OS isn't feasible IMHO right 
now.

Diez



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