New submission from Christian Biesinger <cbiesin...@google.com>:
Because FILE* requires that the runtime library matches between Python and a program using it, it is very hard to use this correctly on Windows. It would be nice if Python provided either: - A function to open a FILE* given a filename, suitable for passing to the various PyRun_* functions, or - Versions of the functions that take a filename and internally open the file (ref: https://docs.python.org/3.9/c-api/veryhigh.html, which talks about this but provides no useful guidance: "One particular issue which needs to be handled carefully is that the FILE structure for different C libraries can be different and incompatible. Under Windows (at least), it is possible for dynamically linked extensions to actually use different libraries, so care should be taken that FILE* parameters are only passed to these functions if it is certain that they were created by the same library that the Python runtime is using." ) ---------- components: Windows messages: 349598 nosy: cbiesinger, paul.moore, steve.dower, tim.golden, zach.ware priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: PyRun_SimpleFile should provide a version that does not need a FILE* type: crash versions: Python 3.8 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue37844> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
