On Aug 30, 2012, at 9:00 PM, Ben Bangert <[email protected]> wrote:

> zkpython (Python binding to C lib):
> - Approx. 1500 lines of C (Not including the C lib itself, which is another ~ 
> 8000 lines of code)
> - Anyone that knows and wants to read the C library *and* Python *and* the 
> Python C binding tricks can trouble-shoot and contribute. And maybe the 
> patches will actually be accepted and incorporated at some point...
> - Only usable with CPython
> - Worst case... Python segfaults
> 
> I really don't know many (hardly any) Python developers that know C well 
> enough to debug it or dive into it. If their only Zookeeper experience is 
> marred by bugs in the 'black box' of C, they'll move on to something else. 
> Which saddens me cause I think Zookeeper is pretty awesome.

Wanted to update this cause I think this might have come off as harsh. I 
greatly appreciate the Python C binding work, without it I wouldn't have 
started using Zookeeper. I definitely think we can do better to make it more 
enjoyable to use Zookeeper from Python though.

- Ben

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