Python critique

[rantingrick]

It's more a demonstration that you can do it with python.
The reason is that Python developpers will not put themself in the
situation where they need to use a variable 'orange' line 32 and use the
same variable 'orange' line 33 to refer to something else.

Yes and when a programmer does something like this he does not
demonstrate *scope-y* problems, he demonstrates *dope-y* problems.

 

[sturlamolden]

    Probably the biggest practical problem with CPython is
that C modules have to be closely matched to the version of
CPython.  There's no well-defined API that doesn't change.

ctypes and DLLs in plain C do not change, and do not depend on CPython
version.


Sturla

 

[sturlamolden]

Please stop spreading FUD:http://docs.python.org/c-api/index.html

Even if the API does not change, there is still static linkage with
version dependency. That is avoided with ctypes.

Sturla