Hi Stefan,
On Sat, 24 Nov 2018 at 22:17, Stefan Behnel wrote:
> Couldn't this also be achieved via reference counting? Count only in C
> space, and delete the "open object" when the refcount goes to 0?
The point is to remove the need to return the same handle to C code if
the object is the same
Armin Rigo schrieb am 23.11.18 um 14:15:
> In PyPy we'd have a global table of
> "open objects", and a handle would be an index in that table; closing
> a handle means writing NULL into that table entry. No emulated
> reference counting needed: we simply use the existing GC to keep alive
> objects
Hi, I’m working on the tarfile module to add support for file objects
whose size is not know beforehand (https://bugs.python.org/issue35227).
In doing so, I need to adapt `tarfile.copyfileobj` to return the length
of the file after it has been copied.
Calling this function with `length=None` curr
On Fri, 23 Nov 2018 at 23:24, Armin Rigo wrote
(regarding opaque "handles" in the C API):
> The C API would change a lot, so it's not reasonable to do that in the
> CPython repo. But it could be a third-party project, attempting to
> define an API like this and implement it well on top of both CP
