Re: [Python-Dev] 3rd party developers: don't change your APIs when porting to Py3k!

2008-03-17 Thread Bill Janssen
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Re: [Python-Dev] 3rd party developers: don't change your APIs when porting to Py3k! (but consider using ctypes)

2008-03-17 Thread zooko
I'm the maintainer of a few Python packages which wrap native C or C+ + code. At Pycon, I learned that PyPy and Jython support ctypes or have plans to do so in the near future. I don't know about IronPython. However, having CPython, PyPy, and Jython all supporting ctypes makes it the obviou

[Python-Dev] 3rd party developers: don't change your APIs when porting to Py3k!

2008-03-17 Thread Guido van Rossum
For those who don't read blogs, I just blogged the slides for my keynote, and added an important admonishment to 3rd party developers. Here's the full text of the blog: The slides of my `keynote`_ are now up on python.org. There's both a `PowerPoint`_ and a `PDF`_ file. .. _keynote: http://www.p