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[Python-Dev] cffi in stdlib

Brett Cannon brett at python.org
Tue Feb 26 20:21:03 CET 2013 
On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 2:12 PM, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:

> Generally speaking, deferring something to Python 4 means "never".
>

Does that mean your aversion to double digit version numbers (i.e. 3.10) is
gone or you expect to freeze Python in carbonite by then?

-Brett


>
> On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 11:06 AM, R. David Murray <rdmurray at bitdance.com>
> wrote:
> > On Tue, 26 Feb 2013 18:14:26 +0000, Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> BTW, I assume that the intention is that both cffi and ctypes remain
> >> available indefinitely? Nobody's looking to deprecate ctypes?
> >
> > I would expect that ctypes would be deprecated eventually simply because
> > there aren't very many people interested in maintaining it, and probably
> > fewer if cffi is accepted.  That said, I would not expect it to leave
> > the stdlib until either the bit rot was so bad it wouldn't be worth
> > shipping it, or (more likely) we reach Python4 and decide at that time
> > that it is time for it to go.
> >
> > Of course, this is just me talking, we only have a *very* vague "sense of
> > the house" for what Python4 means at this point :)
> >
> > --David
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