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[Python-Dev] Addition of "pyprocessing" module to standard lib.

Thomas Heller theller at ctypes.org
Wed May 21 19:00:24 CEST 2008

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Bill Janssen schrieb:
> What happens on those platforms where ctypes doesn't work?  Does the
> module fail to import, either because it isn't present, or because it
> can't load the libffi library?  Or does it fail silently in some way?

It doesn't compile, and Python's setup.py script removes if afterwards IIRC
so it cannot be imported.

In some cases it compiles, but the ctypes unittests segfault (I have
seen this some days ago on HP-UX PA with gcc). The cause for the segfault
is either a ctypes bug or a libffi bug.

Thomas

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