bpo-37571: Add 'b' to prevent the TypeError exception. (GH-14721)
Co-Authored-By: Kyle Stanley <aeros167@gmail.com>
(cherry picked from commit 6b929580eb018cfef386db7f7f66b3a58532eada)
Co-authored-by: Michele Angrisano <michele.angrisano@gmail.com>
diff --git a/Doc/library/ctypes.rst b/Doc/library/ctypes.rst
index 680703d..5507cc6 100644
--- a/Doc/library/ctypes.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/ctypes.rst
@@ -1178,12 +1178,17 @@
Another example that may behave different from what one would expect is this::
>>> s = c_char_p()
- >>> s.value = "abc def ghi"
+ >>> s.value = b"abc def ghi"
>>> s.value
- 'abc def ghi'
+ b'abc def ghi'
>>> s.value is s.value
False
- >>>
+ >>>
+
+.. note::
+
+ Objects instantiated from :class:`c_char_p` can only have their value set to bytes
+ or integers.
Why is it printing ``False``? ctypes instances are objects containing a memory
block plus some :term:`descriptor`\s accessing the contents of the memory.