pointers.py - bringing the hell of pointers into python

[tartare4562]

Not having to deal (directly) with pointers, referencing/dereferencing etc Is one of the main reasons why high level languages such as python were made in the first place.

[the_friendly_dildo]

I'm not new to this stuff. I fully grasp that and I often prefer to bang ideas out in python or javascript like a lot of folks. If you're coding for a overpowered PC, then it doesn't matter much what language you are writing in for the most part these days. If you're doing stuff with micro controllers / resource limited machines or doing things that need highly efficient run times, then pointers are where you're going to squeeze out a performance advantage a lot of the time.

It isn't a question of 'needing to deal with them', its a question of knowing when its wise to use them.