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| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/library/ctypes.rst | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Misc/NEWS | 2 |
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diff --git a/Doc/library/ctypes.rst b/Doc/library/ctypes.rst index 3b0c956..828d7ca4 100644 --- a/Doc/library/ctypes.rst +++ b/Doc/library/ctypes.rst @@ -61,6 +61,12 @@ convention:: Windows appends the usual ``.dll`` file suffix automatically. +.. note:: + Accessing the standard C library through ``cdll.msvcrt`` will use an + outdated version of the library that may be incompatible with the one + being used by Python. Where possible, use native Python functionality, + or else import and use the ``msvcrt`` module. + On Linux, it is required to specify the filename *including* the extension to load a library, so attribute access can not be used to load libraries. Either the :meth:`LoadLibrary` method of the dll loaders should be used, or you should load @@ -284,6 +284,8 @@ Library Documentation ------------- +- Issue #23606: Adds note to ctypes documentation regarding cdll.msvcrt. + - Issue #25500: Fix documentation to not claim that __import__ is searched for in the global scope. |