On Wednesday 29 June 2005 04:55 am, Simon Brunning wrote: > On 6/28/05, John Roth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'd definitely like to see ctypes. I can agree with the segfault > > issue, but I think that some design work would eliminate that. > > I'm not sure that it would. Ctypes allows you, as one colleague > memorably put it, to "poke the operating system with a stick". You are > always going to be able to use ctypes to provoke spectacular crashes > of the kind that you can never get with 'ordinary' Python.
Gosh, I didn't know or care about ctypes, but now I'm interested! ;-D -- Terry Hancock ( hancock at anansispaceworks.com ) Anansi Spaceworks http://www.anansispaceworks.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list