Stephen Hansen wrote:
Its one thing for Python to make available foot-shooting tools(this is good! I love ctypes, with care) for the developer, its another thing entirely for it to shoot at the ground in the normal course of its operation and hope it doesn't blow off any big toes. :)
I would hope that a module included in the stdlib was written by a sufficiently skilled marksman that it can successfully carry out ground-targeting without loss of appendages. And I'd better stop before this metaphor undergoes a sudden catastrophic stress fracture. Seriously, though, if you can't trust someone to write safe ctypes-using code, can you trust them to write safe C code any better? Especially considering that the equivalent C code is much longer and more tedious to write, with attendant risk of the author losing concentration and making a mistake. -- Greg -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
