Author: Armin Rigo <[email protected]>
Branch:
Changeset: r68373:da5b52720446
Date: 2013-12-04 15:44 +0100
http://bitbucket.org/pypy/pypy/changeset/da5b52720446/
Log: Document that ctypes.pythonapi is not really working.
diff --git a/pypy/doc/cpython_differences.rst b/pypy/doc/cpython_differences.rst
--- a/pypy/doc/cpython_differences.rst
+++ b/pypy/doc/cpython_differences.rst
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@
_winreg
-* Supported by being rewritten in pure Python (possibly using ``ctypes``):
+* Supported by being rewritten in pure Python (possibly using ``cffi``):
see the `lib_pypy/`_ directory. Examples of modules that we
support this way: ``ctypes``, ``cPickle``, ``cmath``, ``dbm``,
``datetime``...
Note that some modules are both in there and in the list above;
@@ -316,5 +316,9 @@
type and vice versa. For builtin types, a dictionary will be returned that
cannot be changed (but still looks and behaves like a normal dictionary).
+* ``ctypes.pythonapi`` lets you access the CPython C API emulation layer
+ of PyPy, at your own risks and without doing anything sensible about
+ e.g. the GIL. Since PyPy 2.3, the functions are called with an extra
+ "Py", for example ``PyPyInt_FromLong()``.
.. include:: _ref.txt
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