[Python-Dev] Include ctypes into core Python? (original) (raw)
Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Tue Jan 10 22:14:13 CET 2006
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On 1/10/06, Thomas Heller <theller at python.net> wrote:
I would like to suggest to include ctypes into core Python, starting with the 2.5 release.
On the one hand I agree that this is a useful module, popular, mature etc.
On the other hand it breaks one of the most fundamental Python guidelines: if you get a core dump (segfault etc.) it's a bug in Python or in a 3rd party extension, not in your Python code. An exception would have to be made for any code that uses ctypes, as it is usually trivial to cause core dumps with ctypes (I'd venture it's hard to avoid them ;-).
I don't expect this to count against including ctypes; but I do want it to be dealt with somehow!
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