[Scons-dev] Would requiring Python 2.7.4 or above be a problem for future release?

[Russel Winder]

On Thu, 2015-11-19 at 08:51 -0800, Bill Deegan wrote:
> Russel,
> 
> Is CFFI included in python 2.7.x? 3.x?
> Or would you need to install the package?
> 
> -Bill

Reiterating something in an off-list exchange between Jason and myself:

ctypes is in the standard distribution, CFFI is not (at least not yet).
This means ctypes is standard and CFFI is not. Of course CFFI is a
package that can be installed using conda or pip, but it is a package
that must be installed. CFFI is nontheless, at least for me, better
than ctypes as you just use a C prototype for each entry rather than
the argtypes, rettype system that ctypes uses.

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