On 18.06.2012 16:12, Stefan Behnel wrote:
the PyPy folks have come up with a new FFI library (called cffi) for CPython (and eventually PyPy, obviously).
It looks like ctypes albeit with a smaller API. (C definitions as text strings instead of Python objects.)
Sometimes I think Python and a ffi would always suffice. But in practice Cython's __dealloc__ can be indispensible, as opposed to a Python __del__ method which can be unreliable. And Python's module loader mostly takes care of the common problem of DLL hell.
With a ffi like ctypes or cffi, we don't have the RAII-like cleanup that __dealloc__ provides, and loading the DLLs suffer from all the nastyness of DLL hell.
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