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| author | Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> | 2013-10-06 08:51:01 (GMT) |
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| committer | Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> | 2013-10-06 08:51:01 (GMT) |
| commit | b33c6eb6400c8ecdb33a2a0f0f81f9d2c282cff5 (patch) | |
| tree | f62d56fd0a1fcc1a13079a4ff6f54e11d5e4835f /Doc | |
| parent | b19ef1846c5c37f9a0ed9f385a35fdd8d4b9a876 (diff) | |
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Closes #13951: Add a "faulthandler" reference in the ctypes docs talking about crashes.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/ctypes.rst b/Doc/library/ctypes.rst index 33ff12b..a6c918d 100644 --- a/Doc/library/ctypes.rst +++ b/Doc/library/ctypes.rst @@ -198,7 +198,9 @@ argument values:: >>> There are, however, enough ways to crash Python with :mod:`ctypes`, so you -should be careful anyway. +should be careful anyway. The :mod:`faulthandler` module can be helpful in +debugging crashes (e.g. from segmentation faults produced by erroneous C library +calls). ``None``, integers, bytes objects and (unicode) strings are the only native Python objects that can directly be used as parameters in these function calls. |