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[Python-Dev] LZMA compression support in 3.3

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> I'd like to better understand why ctypes is (sometimes) frowned upon.
> 
> Is it the brittleness?  Tendency to segfault?

That, and Python should work completely if ctypes is not available.

> FWIW, I have a partial implementation of a module that does xz from
> Python using ctypes.

So does it work on Sparc/Solaris? On OpenBSD? On ARM-Linux? Does it
work if the xz library is installed into /opt/sfw/xz?

Regards,
Martin

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