Paul Watson: > Neil Hodgson wrote: >> It is unlikely that ctypes will be included in the standard Python >> build as it allows unsafe memory access making it much easier to crash >> Python. > Does extending Python with any C/C++ function not do the same thing?
No. It is the responsibility of the extension author to ensure that there is no possibility of crashing Python. With ctypes, you have a generic mechanism that enables Python code to cause a crash. Neil -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list