Generally speaking, deferring something to Python 4 means "never".
On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 11:06 AM, R. David Murray <rdmur...@bitdance.com> wrote: > On Tue, 26 Feb 2013 18:14:26 +0000, Paul Moore <p.f.mo...@gmail.com> wrote: >> BTW, I assume that the intention is that both cffi and ctypes remain >> available indefinitely? Nobody's looking to deprecate ctypes? > > I would expect that ctypes would be deprecated eventually simply because > there aren't very many people interested in maintaining it, and probably > fewer if cffi is accepted. That said, I would not expect it to leave > the stdlib until either the bit rot was so bad it wouldn't be worth > shipping it, or (more likely) we reach Python4 and decide at that time > that it is time for it to go. > > Of course, this is just me talking, we only have a *very* vague "sense of > the house" for what Python4 means at this point :) > > --David > _______________________________________________ > 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/guido%40python.org -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido) _______________________________________________ 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
