Guido van Rossum wrote: >>While we're on the subject of Python 3000, what's the >>chance that reference counting when calling C >>functions from Python will go away? > > We'd have to completely change the implementation. We're not planning on that.
Also, the refcounting would have to be replaced by something else that would also be fairly intrusive on the C interface, such as having to remember to make all your local variables known to the garbage collector. A better plan would be to build something akin to Pyrex into the scheme of things, so that all the refcount/GC issues are taken care of automatically. -- Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept, +--------------------------------------+ University of Canterbury, | A citizen of NewZealandCorp, a | Christchurch, New Zealand | wholly-owned subsidiary of USA Inc. | [EMAIL PROTECTED] +--------------------------------------+ _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com