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From: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tools: remove unused wrappers for python
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2015 14:40:37 +0100
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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.