> It has unsafe escape hatches (via ffi, at the very least).
Yep, ctypes is part of the stdlib and lets you corrupt the VM on the fly. Fun stuff like changing the value of cached integers and everything.
But ctypes being a terrifying pain in the ass, people tread very carefully around it. Cffi’s a lot better though it requires an external package. At the end of the day I think I’d be more enclined to bind through pyo3 or cython than write C in python (which is what ctypes has you do without even what little type system C has, to say nothing of -Wall -Weverything).
Yep, ctypes is part of the stdlib and lets you corrupt the VM on the fly. Fun stuff like changing the value of cached integers and everything.
But ctypes being a terrifying pain in the ass, people tread very carefully around it. Cffi’s a lot better though it requires an external package. At the end of the day I think I’d be more enclined to bind through pyo3 or cython than write C in python (which is what ctypes has you do without even what little type system C has, to say nothing of -Wall -Weverything).