On Tuesday 22 Apr 2008 19:02:17 Tim Golden wrote: > Well if you want to, you can reproduce the same effect by using ctypes > which *is* in the standard library. But why reinvent the wheel?
The reason is once again, rightly or wrongly I feel that using non-standard extensions could make it: 1. Difficult to distribute the application as I am not able to package the third-party extension with distutils. 2. Difficult to predict its behaviour with future versions of Python. > Correct. It's part of the pywin32 extensions, one of many useful packages > available to the discerning Python programmer who doesn't feel in some way > bound to whatever comes bundled with the standard library. > > TJG I wouldn't feel "bound" if I restricted the program to myself. But if I want to distribute it (as I intend to) I have to think of others as well. -- Regards, V. Harishankar http://hari.literaryforums.org http://harishankar.org -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
