[Python-Dev] Feature request: better support for "wrapper" objects

[Jack Jansen]

Recently, "Martin v. Loewis" <martin@v.loewis.de> said:
> > There's a lot of Python objects that are really little more than
> > wrappers around an opaque C pointer (plus all the methods to operate
> > on it, etc).
> 
> Can you give a few examples? I'm not aware of any such types, off-hand.

All the Mac toolbox objects (Windows, Dialogs, Controls, Menus and a
zillion more), All the Windows HANDLEs, all the MFC objects (although
they might be a bit more difficult), the objects in the X11 and Motif
modules, the pyexpat parser object, *dbm objects, dlmodule objects,
mpz objects, zlib objects, SGI cl and al objects....

Enough examples? :-)
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