Jack Jansen wrote: > > Recently, "Martin v. Loewis" <martin@v.loewis.de> said: > > > There's a lot of Python objects that are really little more than > > > wrappers around an opaque C pointer (plus all the methods to operate > > > on it, etc). > > > > Can you give a few examples? I'm not aware of any such types, off-hand. > > All the Mac toolbox objects (Windows, Dialogs, Controls, Menus and a > zillion more), All the Windows HANDLEs, all the MFC objects (although > they might be a bit more difficult), the objects in the X11 and Motif > modules, the pyexpat parser object, *dbm objects, dlmodule objects, > mpz objects, zlib objects, SGI cl and al objects.... > > Enough examples? :-) Sounds like you want to introduce a "buffer" interface for these objects. If that's the case, please write a PEP for it -- I don't think anyone on this list wants to see a second can of worms like the buffer interface in Python :-/ -- Marc-Andre Lemburg CEO eGenix.com Software GmbH ______________________________________________________________________ Company & Consulting: http://www.egenix.com/ Python Software: http://www.egenix.com/files/python/
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