On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 4:13 PM, Maciej Fijalkowski <fij...@gmail.com> wrote: > I would like to discuss on the language summit a potential inclusion > of cffi[1] into stdlib. This is a project Armin Rigo has been working > for a while, with some input from other developers. It seems that the > main reason why people would prefer ctypes over cffi these days is > "because it's included in stdlib", which is not generally the reason I > would like to hear. Our calls to not use C extensions and to use an > FFI instead has seen very limited success with ctypes and quite a lot > more since cffi got released. The API is fairly stable right now with > minor changes going in and it'll definitely stablize until Python 3.4 > release.
I think this would be great to have in the stdlib. I think it's useful to note that PyPy is planning to include this in their stdlib for the next release, too, right? Cheers, Dirkjan _______________________________________________ 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
