Thomas Heller thel...@ctypes.org added the comment:
The rationale was to allow different packages (for example) in the same process
to have their own private instance of a foreign function, with possibly
different definitions of restype, argtypes and/or errcheck.
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Erik Johansson e...@ejohansson.se added the comment:
Perhaps this behaviour should be documented somewhere (unless it already is)?
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Éric Araujo mer...@netwok.org added the comment:
Item access is documented in this section:
http://docs.python.org/library/ctypes#loading-shared-libraries (scroll a bit
down looking for __getitem__); the wording about caching is ambiguous with
respect to the current behavior.
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New submission from Erik Johansson e...@ejohansson.se:
I would expect that the following code would give True as result:
from ctypes import *
libc = CDLL(libc.so.6)
libc.time == libc['time']
False
Is it by design that libc['time'] always returns a different _FuncPtr object?
It is a bit
Changes by Antoine Pitrou pit...@free.fr:
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versions: +Python 3.2, Python 3.3
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Martin v. Löwis mar...@v.loewis.de added the comment:
This is intentional; the caching was removed in 214b28d7a999. Thomas, can you
remember the rationale for this change?
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