Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH,RFC]: Introduce libxl_domain_create()

[Gianni Tedesco <gianni.tedesco@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2010-12-21 at 13:57 +0000, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Gianni Tedesco writes ("Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH,RFC]: Introduce 
> libxl_domain_create()"):
> > Python, for example, has no concept of an array nor any remotely similar
> > data structure.
> 
> Python calls them lists.  The literal constructor is [].  You can
> iterate over them and efficiently retrieve and set elements by index
> number.  Ie, they are arrays.

Hmm, they are lists :)

They behave entirely like lists but look like arrays.

> > The way I have developed the current xl binding is that C-structs are
> > embedded inside python objects which wrap them. To be fair I could
> > probably auto-generate list <-> array marshalling functions to go each
> > way so it's not impossible.
> 
> I don't see in what way a Python list is not an array or what the
> fundamental difficulty is here.

Well, when I have a list of PyFoo then I can't back that with an array
of Foo that's all.

> Ian.



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