[issue8161] inconsistency behavior in ctypes.c_char_p dereferencing

[Irit Katriel]

Irit Katriel <iritkatriel at gmail.com> added the comment:

On 3.11 I'm not getting str for the second expression, I get an empty bytes object:


>>> import ctypes
>>> class T(ctypes.Structure):
...     _fields_ = (
...             ('member', ctypes.c_char * 16),
...     )
... 
>>> print('%r'%((ctypes.c_char * 16)()[:]))
b'\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00'
>>> print('%r'%(T().member[:]))
b''

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nosy: +iritkatriel
status: open -> pending

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