Calling foreign functions from Python? ctypes?

Neil Hodgson nyamatongwe+thunder at gmail.com
Fri Jan 6 18:09:50 EST 2006


    Paul Watson:

> Is there any plan to get ctypes batteries into 
> the standard Python build?

    It is unlikely that ctypes will be included in the standard Python 
build as it allows unsafe memory access making it much easier to crash 
Python.

    Neil



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