[Python-Dev] Include ctypes into core Python? (original) (raw)

Ronald Oussoren ronaldoussoren at mac.com
Wed Jan 11 19:04:51 CET 2006


On 11-jan-2006, at 7:59, Thomas Heller wrote:

I'm of the opinion that having a big red warning at the top of the module documentation that this is a contributed module, and incorrect use could cause segmentation faults/crashes, etc would be sufficient. Works for me. Another possibility would be to emit a warning when the module (dl or ctypes, if included) is imported. warnings.warn("Incorrect usage of this module may crash Python", RuntimeWarning, stacklevel=2)

Yuck. Just adding a warning to the documentation should be good
enough. Other modules allow you to make your machine unuseable (such
a fork bomb using os.fork) and those don't warn either.

Ronald

Thomas


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