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[3.11] gh-107659: Improve wording of the description of ctypes.pointer and ctypes.POINTER (GH-107769) (#108164)
gh-107659: Improve wording of the description of `ctypes.pointer` and `ctypes.POINTER` (GH-107769) (cherry picked from commit beffb30) Co-authored-by: Tomas R <tomas.roun8@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: Adam Turner <9087854+AA-Turner@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: Kumar Aditya <kumaraditya@python.org>
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specifying an address, or a ctypes instance.
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.. function:: POINTER(type)
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.. function:: POINTER(type, /)
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This factory function creates and returns a new ctypes pointer type. Pointer
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types are cached and reused internally, so calling this function repeatedly is
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cheap. *type* must be a ctypes type.
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Create and return a new ctypes pointer type. Pointer types are cached and
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reused internally, so calling this function repeatedly is cheap.
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*type* must be a ctypes type.
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.. function:: pointer(obj)
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.. function:: pointer(obj, /)
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This function creates a new pointer instance, pointing to *obj*. The returned
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object is of the type ``POINTER(type(obj))``.
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Create a new pointer instance, pointing to *obj*.
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The returned object is of the type ``POINTER(type(obj))``.
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Note: If you just want to pass a pointer to an object to a foreign function
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call, you should use ``byref(obj)`` which is much faster.

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