[Python-Dev] Linking with mscvrt (original) (raw)

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Thu Feb 9 17:43:32 CET 2006

Neil Hodgson wrote:

But that won't help when you need to deal with third-party code that knows nothing about Python or its wrapped file objects, and calls the CRT (or one of the myriad extant CRTs, chosen at random:-) directly.

Can you explain exactly why there is a problem here? Its fairly normal under Windows to build applications that provide a generic plugin interface (think Netscape plugins or COM) that allow the plugins to be built with any compiler and runtime.

COM really solves all problems people might have on Windows. Alas, it is not a cross-platform API. Standard C is cross-platform, so Python uses it in its own APIs.

Regards, Martin

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