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authorMiss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com>2023-08-07 12:33:25 (GMT)
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[3.12] gh-107442: Document all valid types for ctypes _as_parameter_ (GH-107443) (#107707)
gh-107442: Document all valid types for ctypes _as_parameter_ (GH-107443) (cherry picked from commit 6925c578a0e3cbb00858e64da813a7ffe79623c4) Co-authored-by: Tomas R <tomas.roun8@gmail.com>
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@@ -401,9 +401,10 @@ Calling functions with your own custom data types
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
You can also customize :mod:`ctypes` argument conversion to allow instances of
-your own classes be used as function arguments. :mod:`ctypes` looks for an
-:attr:`!_as_parameter_` attribute and uses this as the function argument. Of
-course, it must be one of integer, string, or bytes::
+your own classes be used as function arguments. :mod:`ctypes` looks for an
+:attr:`!_as_parameter_` attribute and uses this as the function argument. The
+attribute must be an integer, string, bytes, a :mod:`ctypes` instance, or an
+object with an :attr:`!_as_parameter_` attribute::
>>> class Bottles:
... def __init__(self, number):