Dan Stromberg <strom...@gmail.com> added the comment: I agree that ctypes is a bit more brittle - both ctypes and c extension modules can yield segfaults, but at least the c extension module is likely to give an error or warning when you rebuild it.
However, I'm getting the impression that: 1) In pypy, the C extension module layer isn't a complete emulation 2) In pypy, the C extension module is a bit disfavored compared to ctypes 3) In pypy, there's a performance expense for CPyExt compared to ctypes 3) (less important) In pypy, the C extension module layer is still too young to do much with at this time I've been wondering if maybe there should be a way to check ctypes use against .h's at build time. That way, the brittleness should be about the same. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue6715> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
