New submission from STINNER Victor <vstin...@python.org>:
Since the ctypes module was added to the stdlib (commit
babddfca758abe34ff12023f63b18d745fae7ca9 in 2006), ctypes.c_buffer() was an
alias to ctypes.create_string_buffer(). The implementation contains a commented
deprecation:
def c_buffer(init, size=None):
## "deprecated, use create_string_buffer instead"
## import warnings
## warnings.warn("c_buffer is deprecated, use create_string_buffer instead",
## DeprecationWarning, stacklevel=2)
return create_string_buffer(init, size)
I propose to start to deprecate ctypes.c_buffer(): use
ctypes.create_string_buffer() directly.
In older ctypes version, the function was called c_string(): it's still
mentioned in the ctypes documentation. This legacy is confusion, and it's time
to simplify the API to provide a single function.
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components: ctypes
messages: 400871
nosy: vstinner
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: ctypes: Deprecate c_buffer() alias to create_string_buffer()
versions: Python 3.11
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