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[Python-Dev] cffi in stdlib

Maciej Fijalkowski fijall at gmail.com
Tue Feb 26 17:38:14 CET 2013 
On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 6:32 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
> Le Tue, 26 Feb 2013 17:13:44 +0200,
> Maciej Fijalkowski <fijall at gmail.com> a écrit :
>> Hello.
>>
>> 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.
>
> Do you intend to actually maintain it inside the CPython repository?
>
> Regards
>
> Antoine.

Once we put it in, yes, of course. Me Armin and Alex.
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