[issue43803] ctypes string_at/wstring_at - bad argument name used in docs and in docstring

Eryk Sun report at bugs.python.org
Mon Apr 12 17:56:43 EDT 2021


Eryk Sun <eryksun at gmail.com> added the comment:

> If that's the problem then why not change all of them to use the 
> name "address" or "addr" to avoid confusion and make it clear 
> simple. What is your view?

Change them all to refer to `ptr`. It's not worth introducing a breaking change:

    >>> ctypes.string_at(ptr=b'spam')
    b'spam'

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