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[Python-Dev] cffi in stdlib

Dirkjan Ochtman dirkjan at ochtman.nl
Tue Feb 26 17:30:41 CET 2013 
On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 4:13 PM, Maciej Fijalkowski <fijall at gmail.com> wrote:
> I would like to discuss on the language summit a potential inclusion
> of cffi[1] into stdlib. This is a project Armin Rigo has been working
> for a while, with some input from other developers. It seems that the
> main reason why people would prefer ctypes over cffi these days is
> "because it's included in stdlib", which is not generally the reason I
> would like to hear. Our calls to not use C extensions and to use an
> FFI instead has seen very limited success with ctypes and quite a lot
> more since cffi got released. The API is fairly stable right now with
> minor changes going in and it'll definitely stablize until Python 3.4
> release.

I think this would be great to have in the stdlib.

I think it's useful to note that PyPy is planning to include this in
their stdlib for the next release, too, right?

Cheers,

Dirkjan
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