Why

[TKIPisalegacycipher]

Would you do this

[ZeroIntensity]

because why not?

[JesseTG]

There isn't enough pain in this world.

[prkhrv]

WHY?? I switched to python to avoid dealing with pointers.

[ZeroIntensity]

from pointers import to_ptr

to_ptr(19) <<= 21
print(9 + 10) # 21

[JesseTG]

I'm sure there's some kind of regulatory agency for programmers, and as soon as I figure out what it is I'm going to report you to it.

[Delation]

from pointers import to_ptr

to_ptr(19) <<= 21
print(9 + 10) # 21

I understand why now.

[ldo]

ctypes is cool, though. I have used it a lot.

Tip: I note with approval you have avoided doing “from ctypes import *” as per the documentation examples. However, I find continually typing “ctypes.this” and “ctypes.that” to be quite tedious. So I shorten it using “import ctypes as ct” instead. Then references become “ct.this” and “ct.that”.

[ZeroIntensity]

my ide was saying that doing from ctypes import * was illegal as wildcard imports from library wasn't allowed, so i didn't bother trying to hassle with flake8 or mypy which would complain about it later

[ldo]

It’s not illegal, but minimizing namespace pollution is a good idea.

[NewbCooder]

The world cannot be at peace!! Hence we have pointers😂😂

[DexterAntonio]

Someone wrote a medium article describing how great this package is for writing faster code 😟. I'm sure this is being used in production somewhere.

[ZeroIntensity]

havent tried any benchmarks, but i doubt that this makes things any faster (other than c bindings, but that still has a lot of abstraction going on)

[tommyvo]

Could this be used to implement linked lists?

[ZeroIntensity]

you can implement linked lists just fine without this