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-rw-r--r--Lib/ctypes/__init__.py5
-rw-r--r--Lib/ctypes/test/test_python_api.py5
2 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/ctypes/__init__.py b/Lib/ctypes/__init__.py
index 7690796..61923b6 100644
--- a/Lib/ctypes/__init__.py
+++ b/Lib/ctypes/__init__.py
@@ -135,6 +135,11 @@ from _ctypes import _SimpleCData
class py_object(_SimpleCData):
_type_ = "O"
+ def __repr__(self):
+ try:
+ return super(py_object, self).__repr__()
+ except ValueError:
+ return "%s(<NULL>)" % type(self).__name__
class c_short(_SimpleCData):
_type_ = "h"
diff --git a/Lib/ctypes/test/test_python_api.py b/Lib/ctypes/test/test_python_api.py
index 78e0231..9d13474 100644
--- a/Lib/ctypes/test/test_python_api.py
+++ b/Lib/ctypes/test/test_python_api.py
@@ -78,5 +78,10 @@ class PythonAPITestCase(unittest.TestCase):
# not enough arguments
self.failUnlessRaises(TypeError, PyOS_snprintf, buf)
+ def test_pyobject_repr(self):
+ self.failUnlessEqual(repr(py_object()), "py_object(<NULL>)")
+ self.failUnlessEqual(repr(py_object(42)), "py_object(42)")
+ self.failUnlessEqual(repr(py_object(object)), "py_object(%r)" % object)
+
if __name__ == "__main__":
unittest.main()