Re: [rox-users] System feature requests

[Christopher A. <chr...@we...>]

Thomas Leonard schrieb:

> On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 04:40:21PM +0200, Tilo Riemer wrote:
> 
>>Hello,
>>
>>
>>>Anyone know of anything else we could use? Distributing 
>>>platform-specific binaries is such a pain...
>>
>>We should right our own python module for system infos ;-)
>>in this case, we could use C for low level and platform-specific stuff.
>>but it will only work if enough people work on it. maybe something waht
>>could be added to the python base library ;-)
> 
> 
> I was thinking more generally... something that will let us call into any
> C library, without needing a C compiler, etc. Should be possible, but we'd
> need people on various platforms to make sure it worked everywhere.

Sound like the ctypes Python module...

<http://starship.python.net/crew/theller/ctypes/>

I may be wrong, I missed the beginning of this discussion...

Chris