"Martin v. Löwis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thomas Heller wrote: >> It has been proposed to include it in core Python, but Guido didn't >> accept it. The thread starts here: >> >> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2004-January/thread.html#41814 >> >> And Guido's last word was this (see the end of the message): >> >> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2004-January/041856.html > > He didn't accept it - he didn't reject it, either. > > Notice that this thread did *not* propose to include ctypes: instead, > it suggested to include ctypes *in order to implement _winreg*. > > This is something completely different, and this is what Guido > rejected: Implementing _winreg with ctypes is indeed a bad idea, > IMO. Whether or not ctypes should be included is a different story.
It was a misunderstanding then - I simply wanted to demonstrate how some of the _winreg functions could be implemented with ctypes. Anyway, I've just posted a request to include ctypes to python-dev. We'll see. Thomas -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list