On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 7:42 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 1:13 AM, Maciej Fijalkowski <fij...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Hello. > > > > I would like to discuss on the language summit a potential inclusion > > of cffi[1] into stdlib. > > I think cffi is well worth considering as a possible inclusion for > Python 3.4. (In particular, I'm a fan of the fact it just uses C > syntax to declare what you're trying to talk to) > I'm cautiously +0.5 because I'd really like to see a strong comparison case being made vs. ctypes. I've used ctypes many times and it was easy and effortless (well, except the segfaults when wrong argument types are declared :-). I'll be really interesting in seeing concrete examples that demonstrate how CFFI is superior. > If I'm reading the dependencies correctly, we would also need to bring > Eli Bendersky's pycparser into the stdlib, correct? (not an objection, > just an observation, although we'd obviously need Eli's explicit > endorsement for that). > Of course I have no problem with this. I obviously signed the contributor agreement by this point ;-) pycparser depends on David Beazley's PLY though, so that will have to be pulled in as well. Eli
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