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@sobolevn sobolevn commented Nov 20, 2021

There are two changes:

  1. pointer
  2. Array

But, they are different. Let's see why.

pointer

Docs: https://docs.python.org/3/library/ctypes.html#ctypes.pointer

>>> from ctypes import pointer
>>> pointer._type_
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
AttributeError: 'builtin_function_or_method' object has no attribute '_type_'

>>> from ctypes import c_int
>>> i = c_int(1)
>>> pointer(i)._type_
<class 'ctypes.c_int'>

This looks like an instance attribute to me.

Array

Docs: https://docs.python.org/3/library/ctypes.html#ctypes.Array

>>> from ctypes import Array
>>> Array._type_
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
AttributeError: type object '_ctypes.Array' has no attribute '_type_'

In this case it is even more cryptic.
Array is not used directly most of the time as far as I know.

Moreover, Array is an abstract class in runtime (but not in typeshed).
I will open a new issue for this.

Docs suggest to follow this practice to create new Array subtypes:

>>> from ctypes import *
>>> class POINT(Structure):
...   _fields_ = ("x", c_int), ("y", c_int)
... 
>>> Arr = POINT * 3
>>> Arr._type_
<class '__main__.POINT'>
>>> Arr._length_
3
>>> type(Arr)
<class '_ctypes.PyCArrayType'>
>>> Arr
<class '__main__.POINT_Array_3'>

What really happens is we create a new type for each *, in this case: POINT_Array_3.

Closes #6333

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According to mypy_primer, this change has no effect on the checked open source code. 🤖🎉

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Thank you! 🎉

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