On Fri, 23 Nov 2018 at 23:24, Armin Rigo wrote
(regarding opaque "handles" in the C API):
> The C API would change a lot, so it's not reasonable to do that in the
> CPython repo. But it could be a third-party project, attempting to
> define an API like this and implement it well on top of both CP
Hi, I’m working on the tarfile module to add support for file objects
whose size is not know beforehand (https://bugs.python.org/issue35227).
In doing so, I need to adapt `tarfile.copyfileobj` to return the length
of the file after it has been copied.
Calling this function with `length=None` curr
Armin Rigo schrieb am 23.11.18 um 14:15:
> In PyPy we'd have a global table of
> "open objects", and a handle would be an index in that table; closing
> a handle means writing NULL into that table entry. No emulated
> reference counting needed: we simply use the existing GC to keep alive
> objects
Hi Stefan,
On Sat, 24 Nov 2018 at 22:17, Stefan Behnel wrote:
> Couldn't this also be achieved via reference counting? Count only in C
> space, and delete the "open object" when the refcount goes to 0?
The point is to remove the need to return the same handle to C code if
the object is the same
