https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/4e3d5ecaad295c0b766019409c7e762497fd1d7d
commit: 4e3d5ecaad295c0b766019409c7e762497fd1d7d
branch: main
author: Peter Bierma <[email protected]>
committer: ZeroIntensity <[email protected]>
date: 2026-10-19T22:29:35Z
summary:
gh-158418: Document that zero-arg `super` doesn't work with
`ctypes.util.struct` (GH-159803)
files:
M Doc/library/ctypes.rst
diff --git a/Doc/library/ctypes.rst b/Doc/library/ctypes.rst
index 6635304c35face..bafe00a6a95703 100644
--- a/Doc/library/ctypes.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/ctypes.rst
@@ -3675,6 +3675,12 @@ fields, or any other data types containing pointer type
fields.
point = Point(1, 2)
+ .. note::
+
+ Calling :func:`super` without arguments in methods of the decorated
+ class raises a :exc:`TypeError`. Use the two-argument form instead, for
example
+ ``super(Point, self).__init__(x, y)``.
+
*align*, *layout*, and *pack* supply the value for the
:attr:`~ctypes.Structure._align_`,
:attr:`~ctypes.Structure._layout_`, and :attr:`~ctypes.Structure._pack_`
attributes, respectively.
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