Neal Norwitz schrieb: > On 7/4/06, Thomas Heller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> I would like to ask about the possibility to add some improvements to ctypes >> in Python 2.5, although the feature freeze is now in effect. Hopefully >> former >> third-party libraries can have the freeze relaxed somewhat;-). > > Ok, former third-party libraries get a 1e-308 reprieve. :-) > > I think the general answer is to plan some way that you could make an > external release to support the other communities like numpy. I don't > know the details, but I believe Barry does this with email. This > would allow Python to be more stable, but allow additional features > for the communities that are interested in installing an additional > ctypes release. > >> I intend to do these changes, the first is a small and trivial one, but >> allows >> a lot of flexibility: >> >> - Remove the restriction that the argtypes attribute of foreign functions >> must >> be ctypes types. Instead they are only required to implement a .from_param >> class method. > > This patch is ok. I will add comments to the patch on SF.
Patch 1517790 is now committed, thanks. >> The second one is more involved, and not yet complete. I can post the patch >> or a link to it for review when it is implemented completely: >> >> - Implement the __array_struct__ attribute as describes by the numpy pep at >> http://numpy.scipy.org/array_interface.html. > > This is too much to add to a beta. Perhaps you could work on a branch > to add these features and integrate the branch back in after 2.5 has > been released. You could make an external release from the branch. We will see how this works out. Not what I expected to hear, but I'm sure it is a wise decision. 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
