This issue tracker has been migrated to GitHub, and is currently read-only.
For more information, see the GitHub FAQs in the Python's Developer Guide.

Author pitrou
Recipients amaury.forgeotdarc, belopolsky, dabeaz, josh.r, martin.panter, meador.inge, pitrou, skrah
Date 2014-07-31.15:26:30
SpamBayes Score -1.0
Marked as misclassified Yes
Message-id <53DA6022.8090803@free.fr>
In-reply-to <1406820283.18.0.74441211973.issue15986@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
Content
Le 31/07/2014 11:24, David Beazley a écrit :
>
> Well, a lot of things in this big bad world are dangerous. Don't see
how this is any more dangerous than all of the peril that tools like
ctypes and llvmpy already provide.

The point of the buffer API is to make memory access *less* dangerous 
than with the perilous tools, though.

Otherwise we might as well decide that Python crashes because C crashes :-)

(as for llvmpy, I think its implementation deserves to die)
History
Date User Action Args
2014-07-31 15:26:30pitrousetrecipients: + pitrou, amaury.forgeotdarc, belopolsky, skrah, meador.inge, dabeaz, martin.panter, josh.r
2014-07-31 15:26:30pitroulinkissue15986 messages
2014-07-31 15:26:30pitroucreate