[Python-Dev] Re: Un-stalling Berkeley DB support (original) (raw)

Moshe Zadka Moshe Zadka moshez@math.huji.ac.il
Thu, 10 Aug 2000 04:12:59 +0300 (IDT)

On Wed, 9 Aug 2000, Gregory P . Smith wrote:

Out of curiosity, I just made a version of py-bsddb3 that uses SWIG v1.3alpha3 instead of SWIG v1.1-883. It looks like 1.3a3 is still using strings for pointerish things. One thing to note that may calm some peoples sense of "eww gross, pointer strings" is that programmers should never see them. They are "hidden" behind the python shadow class. The pointer strings are only contained within the shadow objects "this" member.

It's not "ewww gross", it's "dangerous!". This makes Python "not safe", since users can access random memory location.

Moshe Zadka <moshez@math.huji.ac.il> There is no IGLU cabal. http://advogato.org/person/moshez