[Python-checkins] [3.12] gh-107442: Document all valid types for ctypes _as_parameter_ (GH-107443) (#107707)

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https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/e5582bdbcf56033a445c7a96eca8503968771b33
commit: e5582bdbcf56033a445c7a96eca8503968771b33
branch: 3.12
author: Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington at users.noreply.github.com>
committer: Yhg1s <thomas at python.org>
date: 2023-08-07T14:33:25+02:00
summary:

[3.12] gh-107442: Document all valid types for ctypes _as_parameter_ (GH-107443) (#107707)

gh-107442: Document all valid types for ctypes _as_parameter_ (GH-107443)
(cherry picked from commit 6925c578a0e3cbb00858e64da813a7ffe79623c4)

Co-authored-by: Tomas R <tomas.roun8 at gmail.com>

files:
M Doc/library/ctypes.rst

diff --git a/Doc/library/ctypes.rst b/Doc/library/ctypes.rst
index ff579d980d5ed..3c794beca32c1 100644
--- a/Doc/library/ctypes.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/ctypes.rst
@@ -401,9 +401,10 @@ Calling functions with your own custom data types
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 
 You can also customize :mod:`ctypes` argument conversion to allow instances of
-your own classes be used as function arguments.  :mod:`ctypes` looks for an
-:attr:`!_as_parameter_` attribute and uses this as the function argument.  Of
-course, it must be one of integer, string, or bytes::
+your own classes be used as function arguments. :mod:`ctypes` looks for an
+:attr:`!_as_parameter_` attribute and uses this as the function argument. The
+attribute must be an integer, string, bytes, a :mod:`ctypes` instance, or an
+object with an :attr:`!_as_parameter_` attribute::
 
    >>> class Bottles:
    ...     def __init__(self, number):