[New-bugs-announce] [issue33242] Support binary symbol names

[Matthias Urlichs]

New submission from Matthias Urlichs <smurf at smurf.noris.de>:

ctypes should support binary symbols.

Rationale: There's no requirement that the symbol name in question is encoded as ASCII or UTF-8.

>>> import ctypes
>>> t = type('iface', (ctypes.Structure,), {'_fields_': [(b'c_string_symbol', ctypes.CFUNCTYPE(ctypes.c_uint32))]})
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: '_fields_' must be a sequence of (name, C type) pairs

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components: ctypes
messages: 315096
nosy: smurfix
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Support binary symbol names
type: enhancement

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