Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH,RFC]: Introduce libxl_domain_create()

[Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Gianni Tedesco writes ("Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH,RFC]: Introduce 
libxl_domain_create()"):
> Python, for example, has no concept of an array nor any remotely similar
> data structure.

Python calls them lists.  The literal constructor is [].  You can
iterate over them and efficiently retrieve and set elements by index
number.  Ie, they are arrays.

> The way I have developed the current xl binding is that C-structs are
> embedded inside python objects which wrap them. To be fair I could
> probably auto-generate list <-> array marshalling functions to go each
> way so it's not impossible.

I don't see in what way a Python list is not an array or what the
fundamental difficulty is here.

Ian.

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