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-rw-r--r--Lib/ctypes/__init__.py4
-rw-r--r--Lib/ctypes/test/test_memfunctions.py10
2 files changed, 12 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/ctypes/__init__.py b/Lib/ctypes/__init__.py
index d65ea7b..1283f28 100644
--- a/Lib/ctypes/__init__.py
+++ b/Lib/ctypes/__init__.py
@@ -485,7 +485,7 @@ _cast = PYFUNCTYPE(py_object, c_void_p, py_object, py_object)(_cast_addr)
def cast(obj, typ):
return _cast(obj, obj, typ)
-_string_at = CFUNCTYPE(py_object, c_void_p, c_int)(_string_at_addr)
+_string_at = PYFUNCTYPE(py_object, c_void_p, c_int)(_string_at_addr)
def string_at(ptr, size=-1):
"""string_at(addr[, size]) -> string
@@ -497,7 +497,7 @@ try:
except ImportError:
pass
else:
- _wstring_at = CFUNCTYPE(py_object, c_void_p, c_int)(_wstring_at_addr)
+ _wstring_at = PYFUNCTYPE(py_object, c_void_p, c_int)(_wstring_at_addr)
def wstring_at(ptr, size=-1):
"""wstring_at(addr[, size]) -> string
diff --git a/Lib/ctypes/test/test_memfunctions.py b/Lib/ctypes/test/test_memfunctions.py
index 6a6411e..4bee77f 100644
--- a/Lib/ctypes/test/test_memfunctions.py
+++ b/Lib/ctypes/test/test_memfunctions.py
@@ -3,6 +3,16 @@ import unittest
from ctypes import *
class MemFunctionsTest(unittest.TestCase):
+## def test_overflow(self):
+## # string_at and wstring_at must use the Python calling
+## # convention (which acquires the GIL and checks the Python
+## # error flag). Provoke an error and catch it; see also issue
+## # #3554: <http://bugs.python.org/issue3554>
+## self.assertRaises((OverflowError, MemoryError, SystemError),
+## lambda: wstring_at(u"foo", sys.maxint - 1))
+## self.assertRaises((OverflowError, MemoryError, SystemError),
+## lambda: string_at("foo", sys.maxint - 1))
+
def test_memmove(self):
# large buffers apparently increase the chance that the memory
# is allocated in high address space.