[issue11253] autodocument first appearance of ctypes.wintypes constants

Senthil Kumaran added the comment: What's new docs are usually for what is coming up new in the upcoming releases. It is not updated once the release is done. Bug fixes and related docs are updated in documentation. -- ___ Python tracker

[issue11253] autodocument first appearance of ctypes.wintypes constants

anatoly techtonik added the comment: On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 12:18 AM, Senthil Kumaran wrote: > As you said, the future version can be updated, but we > cannot go back with updating the documentation of the already released > versions. Why? -- anatoly t. -- __

[issue11253] autodocument first appearance of ctypes.wintypes constants

Senthil Kumaran added the comment: On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 10:44:59AM +, Mark Mc Mahon wrote: > So we need a doc patch? Should we update the older 'What's new in > Python 2.x' for added attribs? The Documentation patch may be applied only 2.7 and 3.2/3.3 releases now. What's new is updated

[issue11253] autodocument first appearance of ctypes.wintypes constants

Mark Mc Mahon added the comment: This mostly a documentation concern - correct? ctypes.wintypes is sparsely documented - in 2.7 the help for it seems to be: "The ctypes.wintypes module provides quite some other Windows specific data types, for example HWND, WPARAM, or DWORD. Some useful struct

[issue11253] autodocument first appearance of ctypes.wintypes constants

Changes by Éric Araujo : -- versions: -Python 2.5, Python 2.6, Python 2.7, Python 3.1, Python 3.2 ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-b

[issue11253] autodocument first appearance of ctypes.wintypes constants

Amaury Forgeot d'Arc added the comment: Can you provide a patch, or show how to do it concretely? -- nosy: +amaury.forgeotdarc ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue11253] autodocument first appearance of ctypes.wintypes constants

New submission from anatoly techtonik : I've just noticed that my application is incompatible with Python 2.5, because ctypes.wintypes is missing SHORT constants. However, I can't find the information when these symbols were introduced first. To prevent such confusion in future it would be nic