Dennis Kaarsemaker <den...@kaarsemaker.net> writes:

>> I do not follow Python development, but does the above mean that
>> with recent 2.x you can say ctypes without first saying "import
>> ctypes"?  It feels somewhat non-pythonesque that identifiers like
>> this is given to you without you asking with an explicit 'import',
>> so I am puzzled.
>
> No, you cannot do that. The reason others may not have noticed this bug is 
> that
> in git-p4.py, ctypes is only used on windows.
>
>  111     if platform.system() == 'Windows':
>  112         free_bytes = ctypes.c_ulonglong(0)
>  113         
> ctypes.windll.kernel32.GetDiskFreeSpaceExW(ctypes.c_wchar_p(os.getcwd()), 
> None, None, ctypes.pointer(free_bytes))
>
> The fact that it works for the OP with 2.7.10 is puzzling (assuming that it's
> on the same system).

Exactly.  That is where my "I am puzzled" comes from.

The patch looks obviously the right thing to do.  Luke?  Lars?

>
> diff --git a/git-p4.py b/git-p4.py
> index daa60c6..212ef2b 100755
> --- a/git-p4.py
> +++ b/git-p4.py
> @@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ import shutil
>  import stat
>  import zipfile
>  import zlib
> +import ctypes
>  
>  try:
>      from subprocess import CalledProcessError
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