[Python-Dev] The os module, unix and win32 (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Thu Jan 8 17:27:21 EST 2004

Another possibility: we'd get a lot more mileage out of simply adding ctypes to the standard install. That would solve the immediate popen problem, let us get rid of winreg entirely (and replace it with a pure Python version), and make future Win32 problems easier to solve.

I don't know that a Python version of _winreg using ctypes would be preferable over a C version. I'd expect it to be slower, less readable than the C version, and more susceptible to the possibility of causing segfaults. (As for speed, I actually have a windows registry application where speed of access is important.)

That doesn't mean I don't think ctypes is a good idea -- just that I don't think applying it to _winreg would be useful.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)

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