Add `_SimpleCData._type_` docs.
Add type codes to the summary table.
Cross-link `struct`, `array`, and `ctypes`; throw in `numpy` too.
(Anyone wanting to add a code should be aware of those.)
Add `py_object`, and `VARIANT_BOOL` for completeness.
* Put the "Loading shared libraries" section first
* Adjust formatting at the end of the section
* In "Finding shared libraries", add more text about what's going on
* Move the stub function doc for find_library into "Finding shared libraries"
* Also move the sister function, find_msvcrt. That's on the chopping block,
but not removed now.
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Co-authored-by: Hugo van Kemenade <1324225+hugovk@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Emma Smith <emma@emmatyping.dev>
Co-authored-by: Author: Terry Jan Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu>
Co-authored-by: Victor Stinner <vstinner@python.org>
Move docs to the reference section & reduce the “tutorial” part to a quick intro & link.
Clarify what values are accepted.
Add macro/attribute equivalents.
Discourage _align_ values that aren't powers of two.
Fixed-sized types, like ``c_int32``, are currently missing from the fundamental data types table
in the ``ctypes`` documentation. This commit adds them, and notes that ``c_[u]int8`` is an alias
of ``c_[u]byte``.
Deprecate _pointer_type_cache and calling POINTER on a string.
Co-authored-by: neonene <53406459+neonene@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Jun Komoda <45822440+junkmd@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Petr Viktorin <encukou@gmail.com>
Add extra audit hooks to catch C function calling from ctypes,
reading/writing files through readline and executing external
programs through _posixsubprocess.
* Make audit-tests for open pass when readline.append_history_file is unavailable
* Less direct testing of _posixsubprocess for audit hooks
* Also remove the audit hook from call_cdeclfunction now that _ctypes_callproc does it instead.
* reword the NEWS entry.
* mention readline in NEWS
* add versionchanged markers
* fix audit_events.rst versionadded
* doc lint
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Co-authored-by: Gregory P. Smith <greg@krypto.org>
- Restore max field size to sys.maxsize, as in Python 3.13 & below
- PyCField: Split out bit/byte sizes/offsets.
- Expose CField's size/offset data to Python code
- Add generic checks for all the test structs/unions, using the newly exposed attrs
Add function to list the currently loaded libraries to ctypes.util
The dllist() function calls platform-specific APIs in order to
list the runtime libraries loaded by Python and any imported modules.
On unsupported platforms the function may be missing.
Co-authored-by: Eryk Sun <eryksun@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Peter Bierma <zintensitydev@gmail.com>
Make `versionchanged:: next`` expand to current (unreleased) version.
When a new CPython release is cut, the release manager will replace
all such occurences of "next" with the just-released version.
(See the issue for release-tools and devguide PRs.)
Co-authored-by: Adam Turner <9087854+AA-Turner@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Hugo van Kemenade <1324225+hugovk@users.noreply.github.com>
- If setting `_fields_` fails, e.g. with AttributeError, don't set the attribute in `__dict__`
- Document the “finalization” behaviour
- Beef up tests: add `getattr`, test Union as well as Structure
- Put common functionality in a common function
Co-authored-by: Peter Bierma <zintensitydev@gmail.com>
Corrected some grammar and spelling issues in documentation.
Co-authored-by: Russell Keith-Magee <russell@keith-magee.com>
Co-authored-by: Bénédikt Tran <10796600+picnixz@users.noreply.github.com>
This amends 6988ff02a5: memory allocation for
stginfo->ffi_type_pointer.elements in PyCSimpleType_init() should be
more generic (perhaps someday fmt->pffi_type->elements will be not a
two-elements array).
It should finally resolve#61103.
Co-authored-by: Victor Stinner <vstinner@python.org>
Co-authored-by: Bénédikt Tran <10796600+picnixz@users.noreply.github.com>
Structure layout, and especially bitfields, sometimes resulted in clearly
wrong behaviour like overlapping fields. This fixes
Co-authored-by: Gregory P. Smith <gps@python.org>
Co-authored-by: Petr Viktorin <encukou@gmail.com>
The implementation uses 'ptr' for the name of the first parameter of
ctypes.string_at() and ctypes.wstring_at(). Align docs and docstrings
with the naming used in the implementation.
Co-authored-by: Irit Katriel <1055913+iritkatriel@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Erlend E. Aasland <erlend.aasland@protonmail.com>
Remove a left-over sentence that refers to Py_OptimizeFlag
Remove a left-over sentence that refers to an example that was present in Python 3.10 and was using ``Py_OptimizeFlag``.
