On 11 March 2015 at 21:45, Maciej Fijalkowski <fij...@gmail.com> wrote: >> 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
So if someone were to propose a practical approach to including cffi into the stdlib, *and* assisting the many Windows projects using ctypes for access to the Windows API [1], then there may be a reasonable argument for deprecating ctypes. But nobody seems to be doing that, rather the suggestion appears to be just to deprecate a widely used part of the stdlib offering no migration path :-( Paul [1] There may be Unix users of ctypes, but AFAIK, the vast majority of use cases are on Windows. _______________________________________________ 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
