Guido van Rossum wrote: > On 1/10/06, Thomas Heller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I would like to suggest to include ctypes into core Python, starting >> with the 2.5 release. > > On the one hand I agree that this is a useful module, popular, mature > etc. > > On the other hand it breaks one of the most fundamental Python > guidelines: if you get a core dump (segfault etc.) it's a bug in > Python or in a 3rd party extension, not in *your* Python code. An > exception would have to be made for any code that uses ctypes, as it > is usually trivial to cause core dumps with ctypes (I'd venture it's > hard to avoid them ;-). > > I don't expect this to count against including ctypes; but I do want > it to be dealt with somehow!
As was pointed out on c.l.py, the `dl` module suffers the exact same problem (I don't know myself, as I've never used it). There are no warnings about this in the `dl` module documentation. I can't see how it would be possible to guarantee that such a module could not cause crashes. I'm of the opinion that having a big red warning at the top of the module documentation that this is a contributed module, and incorrect use could cause segmentation faults/crashes, etc would be sufficient. Tim Delaney _______________________________________________ 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
