[Python-Dev] cffi in stdlib (original) (raw)

Maciej Fijalkowski fijall at gmail.com
Tue Feb 26 17:38:14 CET 2013

On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 6:32 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:

Le Tue, 26 Feb 2013 17:13:44 +0200, Maciej Fijalkowski <fijall at gmail.com> a écrit :

Hello.

I would like to discuss on the language summit a potential inclusion of cffi[1] into stdlib. This is a project Armin Rigo has been working for a while, with some input from other developers. It seems that the main reason why people would prefer ctypes over cffi these days is "because it's included in stdlib", which is not generally the reason I would like to hear. Our calls to not use C extensions and to use an FFI instead has seen very limited success with ctypes and quite a lot more since cffi got released. The API is fairly stable right now with minor changes going in and it'll definitely stablize until Python 3.4 release. Do you intend to actually maintain it inside the CPython repository? Regards Antoine.

Once we put it in, yes, of course. Me Armin and Alex.

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