On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 10:58:26PM +0100, Sandro Tosi wrote: > from the first line in this website: "ctypes is an advanced ffi > (Foreign Function Interface) package for Python 2.3 and higher. In > Python 2.5 it is already included."
The "homepage" is kind of confusing: it's about ctypes, but below under "Related projects" is where it discusses ctypeslib. Ctypeslib is not ctypes, it's a tool to be used with ctypes. ctypeslib will parse header files and output python code: something that ctypes doesn't do. ctypeslib isn't included in anything else (/usr/share/pyshared/numpy/ctypeslib.py) is something different. I've searched the relevant files with apt-file, if you do know of ctypeslib somewhere, please let me know. > Since squeeze will be released with Python 2.5 and 2.6, and ctypes has > been removed from Debian just days ago, can you please explain why you > want to package this tool? It probably makes sense now... I'm wanting to package this to get it wider visibility, and hopefully make it more useful to a wider audience. I've been a longtime user of ctypes, and the main reason I haven't used ctypeslib more is that it wasn't in Debian before. Thanks for the concern, - Richard -- | Richard Darst - rkd@ - boltzmann: up 188 days, 18:53 | http://rkd.zgib.net - pgp 0xBD356740 | "Ye shall know the truth and -- the truth shall make you free" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
