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Author	sbt
Recipients	anacrolix, neologix, pitrou, sbt
Date	2012-05-26.17:42:15
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Message-id	<1338054136.37.0.000201640149964.issue14059@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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> RawValue uses ctypes, right? That's problematic for platforms which don't > support ctypes. Are there many posix systems (we care about) where ctypes doesn't work? It would be fairly easy to use memoryview instead of ctypes. (In fact Value/RawValue could be implemented that way when using a typecode instead of a ctypes type.)

> RawValue uses ctypes, right? That's problematic for platforms which don't 
> support ctypes.

Are there many posix systems (we care about) where ctypes doesn't work?

It would be fairly easy to use memoryview instead of ctypes.  (In fact Value/RawValue could be implemented that way when using a typecode instead of a ctypes type.)

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Date	User	Action	Args
2012-05-26 17:42:16	sbt	set	recipients: + sbt, pitrou, anacrolix, neologix
2012-05-26 17:42:16	sbt	set	messageid: <1338054136.37.0.000201640149964.issue14059@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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