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Wed May 21 17:45:13 CEST 2008 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2008-May/079660.html

James Y Knight wrote:
>
> On May 21, 2008, at 11:26 AM, Michael Foord wrote:
>
>> And what about platforms like the JVM or CLR?
>>
>> Incidentally there were a small but vocal group of Pythonistas who 
>> were (are?) certain that IronPython is not Python because it doesn't 
>> have [all of...] the C extensions.
>
> It seems likely to be easier to port ctypes to Jython/IronPython than 
> it is to port 500 C extensions to Jython. So more software using ctype 
> seems like an improvement for those communities.
>

Yes, both of them have their own FFIs. Seo Sanghyeon started a port of 
ctypes for IronPython that should be revived by 'someone'. :-)

Michael Foord

> James

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