[Python-Dev] Include ctypes into core Python?

[Thomas Heller]

"Delaney, Timothy (Tim)" <tdelaney at avaya.com> writes:

> "Martin v. Löwis" wrote:
>
>> So as for dealing with it "somehow": I would make ctypes a dynamically
>> loaded module (ctypes.pyd), so administrators could remove it, and
>> I could also make it a separate option in the Windows installer,
>> so administrators could reject to install it.
>
> I like this solution. Of course, Thomas (author of both py2exe and
> ctypes) may like the ability to have ctypes built into python.dll ...

It is getting offtopic, but I don't care too much about that.  I
requested that zlib be changed to a builtin module too allow easier
bootstrapping of py2exe'd apps which have a compressed library archive.

The nearly only reason for me to implement the single-file option for
py2exe was that the implementation simulates a static linked Python-dll,
which allows for several totally-isolated interpreters in the same
process.

Thomas