Paul Watson:
> Neil Hodgson wrote:
>> It is unlikely that ctypes will be included in the standard Python
>> build as it allows unsafe memory access making it much easier to crash
>> Python.
> Does extending Python with any C/C++ function not do the same thing?
No. It is the responsibility of the extension author to ensure that
there is no possibility of crashing Python. With ctypes, you have a
generic mechanism that enables Python code to cause a crash.
Neil
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