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| author | Michele Angrisano <michele.angrisano@gmail.com> | 2019-07-14 07:55:11 (GMT) |
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| committer | Steve Dower <steve.dower@python.org> | 2019-07-14 07:55:11 (GMT) |
| commit | 6b929580eb018cfef386db7f7f66b3a58532eada (patch) | |
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| parent | 8efade91b12a13102a09a3856179021e579da5e9 (diff) | |
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bpo-37571: Add 'b' to prevent the TypeError exception. (GH-14721)
Co-Authored-By: Kyle Stanley <aeros167@gmail.com>
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diff --git a/Doc/library/ctypes.rst b/Doc/library/ctypes.rst index 680703d..5507cc6 100644 --- a/Doc/library/ctypes.rst +++ b/Doc/library/ctypes.rst @@ -1178,12 +1178,17 @@ the root-object's underlying buffer. Another example that may behave different from what one would expect is this:: >>> s = c_char_p() - >>> s.value = "abc def ghi" + >>> s.value = b"abc def ghi" >>> s.value - 'abc def ghi' + b'abc def ghi' >>> s.value is s.value False - >>> + >>> + +.. note:: + + Objects instantiated from :class:`c_char_p` can only have their value set to bytes + or integers. Why is it printing ``False``? ctypes instances are objects containing a memory block plus some :term:`descriptor`\s accessing the contents of the memory. |