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From: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
To: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>, Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Cc: stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com,
	Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>,
	ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com, xen-devel@lists.xen.org,
	zhigang.x.wang@oracle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tools: remove unused wrappers for python
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2015 14:40:37 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1444138837.5302.174.camel@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20151006113902.GY29124@zion.uk.xensource.com>

On Tue, 2015-10-06 at 12:39 +0100, Wei Liu wrote:

> And for the record, if my google-fu doesn't fail me, it's possible to
> load shared library into python interpreter using "dl" module in 2.7 and
> "ctypes" module in 3.x.

Possible, but not especially convenient since you need to convert the C
prototype manually, plus the result is not necessarily very "pythonic".

I could totally see why people would prefer these bindings (or an argument
for us providing a ctypes based wrapper).

Ian.

  reply	other threads:[~2015-10-06 13:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-10-06 10:46 [PATCH] tools: remove unused wrappers for python Juergen Gross
2015-10-06 11:18 ` Wei Liu
2015-10-06 11:33   ` Juergen Gross
2015-10-06 11:39     ` Wei Liu
2015-10-06 13:40       ` Ian Campbell [this message]
2015-10-06 14:51         ` Juergen Gross
2015-10-06 15:11           ` Ian Campbell
2015-10-06 15:21             ` Juergen Gross
2015-10-06 15:26               ` Ian Campbell
2015-10-06 15:30                 ` Zhigang Wang
2015-10-06 15:45                   ` Ian Campbell
2015-10-06 16:14                     ` Juergen Gross
2015-10-06 16:24                       ` Ian Campbell
2015-10-08  1:10                         ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2015-10-08  4:16                           ` Juergen Gross
2015-10-08 14:30                             ` Ian Campbell
2015-10-06 15:38                 ` Andrew Cooper
2015-10-06 16:31                   ` Wei Liu
2015-10-06 16:38                     ` Ian Campbell
2015-10-06 16:42                       ` Wei Liu
2015-10-06 15:24           ` Zhigang Wang
2015-10-08 14:38             ` Ian Campbell
2015-10-08 15:09               ` Zhigang Wang
2015-10-08 15:27                 ` Ian Campbell
2015-10-08 16:32                   ` Zhigang Wang
2015-10-08 16:58                     ` Wei Liu
2015-10-09  4:42                     ` Juergen Gross
2015-10-09  9:43                       ` Ian Campbell
2015-10-09 10:16                         ` Juergen Gross
2015-10-09 13:29                       ` Andrew Cooper
2015-10-07  2:58   ` Marek Marczykowski-Górecki

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