Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] tools: remove unused wrappers for python

[Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx>]

On 10/06/2015 03:40 PM, Ian Campbell wrote:
> 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).
How often is such a debugging interface being used? Please consider
the amount of code (my patch removed nearly 3000 lines of code!) and
the availability of the xl wrapper.


Juergen

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