https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/5967dd8a4de60a418de84d1d1d9efc063ad12c47 commit: 5967dd8a4de60a418de84d1d1d9efc063ad12c47 branch: main author: monkeyman192 <[email protected]> committer: kumaraditya303 <[email protected]> date: 2024-10-08T12:41:46Z summary:
gh-112433 add versionadded for `ctypes.Structure._align_` (#125087) Co-authored-by: Kumar Aditya <[email protected]> files: M Doc/library/ctypes.rst M Doc/whatsnew/3.13.rst diff --git a/Doc/library/ctypes.rst b/Doc/library/ctypes.rst index 535c5173be50de..d76b8d4809c078 100644 --- a/Doc/library/ctypes.rst +++ b/Doc/library/ctypes.rst @@ -2589,6 +2589,8 @@ fields, or any other data types containing pointer type fields. the structure when being packed or unpacked to/from memory. Setting this attribute to 0 is the same as not setting it at all. + .. versionadded:: 3.13 + .. attribute:: _layout_ An optional string naming the struct/union layout. It can currently diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.13.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.13.rst index a47d5e077a357b..565f74149725d5 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.13.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.13.rst @@ -814,6 +814,10 @@ ctypes See :gh:`124520` for discussion and links to changes in some affected projects. +* :class:`ctypes.Structure` objects have a new :attr:`~ctypes.Structure._align_` + attribute which allows the alignment of the structure being packed to/from + memory to be specified explicitly. + (Contributed by Matt Sanderson in :gh:`112433`) dbm --- _______________________________________________ Python-checkins mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-checkins.python.org/ Member address: [email protected]
