[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: > Thanks again for making time to comment - insights into the perspective > of the author are invaluable. But if by chance you have time to > continue: > >> > > http://effbot.org/pyfaq/suggest.htm >> > http://docs.python.org/dev/lib/ctypes-return-types.html >> A note could probably be added to this section. > > Good. Next: Is there a place on the web where we can log that > conclusion to inspire its resolution?
The canonical place is the Python bug tracker. Best would be to suggest a sentence or two for the docs. Presonally, I would suggest to add something like this to the start of the docs, section 14.14.1.8: """ 14.14.1.8 Return types By default functions are assumed to return the C int type. Other return types can be specified by setting the restype attribute of the function object. -> For functions that do not return anything, restype should be set to None. """ >> > void is missing from >> > http://docs.python.org/dev/lib/node452.html "Fundamental data types" >> >> 'void' is not a type. > > Help, lost me? What I mean is that you cannot create 'variables' of type void in C, so I would say it is not a type. Do you think that ctypes should define c_void = None somewhere? I think that would really be confusing. Consider: >>> c_int(42) c_int(42) >>> c_void() Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in ? TypeError: 'NoneType' object is not callable >>> OTOH, void* is a type in C, also in ctypes, where it is spelled 'c_void_p'. I hope this makes sense to you. Thomas -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
