https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/cafbcd666a7488e9f72553708350b7091dc913fd
commit: cafbcd666a7488e9f72553708350b7091dc913fd
branch: main
author: Bénédikt Tran <10796600+picn...@users.noreply.github.com>
committer: encukou <encu...@gmail.com>
date: 2025-05-29T15:28:57+02:00
summary:
gh-133866: remove deprecated and undocumented function `ctypes.SetPointerType`
(GH-133869)
files:
A Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2025-05-11-10-01-48.gh-issue-133866.g3dHP_.rst
M Doc/whatsnew/3.15.rst
M Lib/ctypes/__init__.py
M Lib/test/test_ctypes/test_incomplete.py
diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.15.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.15.rst
index 87cca4eeff385a..ced9c63071a53c 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.15.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.15.rst
@@ -138,6 +138,14 @@ Deprecated
Removed
=======
+ctypes
+------
+
+* Removed the undocumented function :func:`!ctypes.SetPointerType`,
+ which has been deprecated since Python 3.13.
+ (Contributed by Bénédikt Tran in :gh:`133866`.)
+
+
http.server
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diff --git a/Lib/ctypes/__init__.py b/Lib/ctypes/__init__.py
index 823a3692fd1bbf..d6d07a13f756e2 100644
--- a/Lib/ctypes/__init__.py
+++ b/Lib/ctypes/__init__.py
@@ -379,12 +379,6 @@ def create_unicode_buffer(init, size=None):
return buf
raise TypeError(init)
-
-def SetPointerType(pointer, cls):
- import warnings
- warnings._deprecated("ctypes.SetPointerType", remove=(3, 15))
- pointer.set_type(cls)
-
def ARRAY(typ, len):
return typ * len
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_ctypes/test_incomplete.py
b/Lib/test/test_ctypes/test_incomplete.py
index fefdfe9102e668..2f344611995b2c 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_ctypes/test_incomplete.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_ctypes/test_incomplete.py
@@ -21,9 +21,7 @@ class cell(Structure):
_fields_ = [("name", c_char_p),
("next", lpcell)]
- with warnings.catch_warnings():
- warnings.simplefilter('ignore', DeprecationWarning)
- ctypes.SetPointerType(lpcell, cell)
+ lpcell.set_type(cell)
self.assertIs(POINTER(cell), lpcell)
@@ -50,10 +48,9 @@ class cell(Structure):
_fields_ = [("name", c_char_p),
("next", lpcell)]
- with self.assertWarns(DeprecationWarning):
- ctypes.SetPointerType(lpcell, cell)
-
+ lpcell.set_type(cell)
self.assertIs(POINTER(cell), lpcell)
+
if __name__ == '__main__':
unittest.main()
diff --git
a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2025-05-11-10-01-48.gh-issue-133866.g3dHP_.rst
b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2025-05-11-10-01-48.gh-issue-133866.g3dHP_.rst
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..00f13c9a305eb5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2025-05-11-10-01-48.gh-issue-133866.g3dHP_.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+Remove the undocumented function :func:`!ctypes.SetPointerType`,
+which has been deprecated since Python 3.13.
+Patch by Bénédikt Tran.
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