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

[Zhigang Wang <zhigang.x.wang@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 10/06/2015 10:51 AM, Juergen Gross wrote:
> 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.

We use these extentions along with xend XMLRPC API/xm. Even when move to
xl, this will give us a choice to reserve some logic.

Thanks,

Zhigang

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