On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 11:34 PM, Victor Stinner <victor.stin...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Le 11 mars 2015 18:29, "Brett Cannon" <br...@python.org> a écrit : >> I'm going to propose a somewhat controversial idea: let's deprecate the >> ctypes module. > > In the past I tried to deprecate many functions or modules because they are > rarely or never used. Many developers prefered to keep them. By the way, I > still want to remove plat-xxx modules like IN or CDROM :-) > > Getopt was deprecated when optparse was added to the stdlib. Then optparse > was deprecated when argparse was added to the stdlib. > > Cython and cffi are not part of the stdlib and can be hard to install on > some platforms. Ctypes is cool because it doesn't require C headers nor a C > compiler. > > Is it possible to use cffi without a C compiler/headers as easily than > ctypes?
yes, it has two modes, one that does that and the other that does extra safety at the cost of a C compiler _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
