Neil Hodgson wrote: >>But that won't help when you need to deal with third-party >>code that knows nothing about Python or its wrapped file >>objects, and calls the CRT (or one of the myriad extant >>CRTs, chosen at random:-) directly. > > > Can you explain exactly why there is a problem here? Its fairly > normal under Windows to build applications that provide a generic > plugin interface (think Netscape plugins or COM) that allow the > plugins to be built with any compiler and runtime.
COM really solves all problems people might have on Windows. Alas, it is not a cross-platform API. Standard C is cross-platform, so Python uses it in its own APIs. Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ 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
