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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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On Wed, 28 Aug 2024 01:28:22 +0100, Bart wrote:

> On 28/08/2024 00:53, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 27 Aug 2024 09:44:40 +0200, David Brown wrote:
>> 
>>> Python does not support any significant degree of low-level
>>> programming.
>>>
>>> A key example of low-level programming is control of hardware, which
>>> on most systems means accessing memory-mapped registers at specific
>>> addresses, reading and writing in specific orders.  Python has no
>>> means to do any of that - C and C++ both provide this ability.
>> 
>> I’ve got news for you: this kind of thing is perfectly doable in Python
>> <https://docs.python.org/3/library/ctypes.html>.
> 
> It's Python calling a special module to do the dirty work.

It’s a standard Python module. It uses standard Python constructs like 
“«n» * «type»” to construct an array of «n» elements of «type». I/O to/
from those objects are done using something called the “Buffer Protocol”, 
which is a core part of how Python works.

I previously showed you how Python can even do low-level type 
discrimination at runtime -- try doing that with C. Maybe time to add the 
capability to C to call external Python modules, for help with this? 
“#include <pytypes.h>", anybody?

> That's not far removed from Python just invoking an external C program
> to do the job.

But it is removed.

And note that there is nothing in the C spec to require that C cannot do 
it that way as well. So don’t confuse implementation details with 
fundamental language characteristics.

> By contrast, my scripting language can directly do the low level stuff.

But it couldn’t do the dynamic type casting, could it?