Guido van Rossum wrote: > On 6/12/06, Thomas Heller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I will be happy to say "ctypes is part of Python" (although I *fear* it >> is not one of the packages enthusiastically supported by Guido ;-). > > I don't plan to use it myself, but I'm very happy that it's in the > stdlib since so many people like it.
;-) > Somebody please update PEP 360 (and PEP 291). I'll do that. >> Well, if the compatibility requirements can be retained, at least (ctypes >> should currently be compatible with Python 2.3, but that can probably be >> raised >> to 2.4 when Python 2.5 is officially released, or shortly thereafter). > > That ought to be indicated in PEP 291 and in the ctypes source code somewhere. I'll add markers in the code. >> I am *very* thankful for the fixes, the code review, the suggestions, >> and the encouragement I got by various python-devers. > > You're welcome. And we're thankful for your contribution! > >> I'm even happy >> to revert changes by others done by accident (which destroy comatibility >> with Python 2.3, for example. Well, there was only one). > > Please keep in mind that reverting someone else's changes without > prior discussion is a very rude thing to do. The proper procedure is > to point out their mistake and give them the opportunity to revert it > themselves (or defend their change -- so a public discussion can > ensue). > Disagreements should not be settled by battling checkins; I'd like to > see that developers who ignore this rule repeatedly risk having their > commit privileges taken away temporarily. Ok, I'll follow this procedure from now on. Thanks, Thomas _______________________________________________ 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
