[Python-Dev] Python equivalents in stdlib Was: Include datetime.py in stdlib or not?

[Alexander Belopolsky]

On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 2:42 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
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> Except that ctypes doesn't help provide C extensions at all. It only
> helps provide wrappers around existing C libraries, which is quite a
> different thing.

Yet it may allow writing an equivalent of a  C extension in pure
python.  For example posix or time modules could be easily
reimplemented that way if the libc was less platform dependent.  Such
reimplementation, however is unlikely to be very useful.

> Which, in the end, makes the original suggestion meaningless.

It is not meaningless, but would require effectively exposing pyport.h
in pure python and using it to select the correct signature for a
given library function.  This would be a tremendous effort and is
hardly justified.