0x1d000000
>>>
-.. note::
-
- :mod:`ctypes` may raise a :exc:`ValueError` after calling the function, if
- it detects that an invalid number of arguments were passed. This behavior
- should not be relied upon. It is deprecated in 3.6.2, and will be removed
- in 3.7.
-
:exc:`ValueError` is raised when you call an ``stdcall`` function with the
``cdecl`` calling convention, or vice versa::
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
By default, Structure and Union fields are aligned in the same way the C
-compiler does it. It is possible to override this behavior be specifying a
+compiler does it. It is possible to override this behavior by specifying a
:attr:`_pack_` class attribute in the subclass definition. This must be set to a
positive integer and specifies the maximum alignment for the fields. This is
what ``#pragma pack(n)`` also does in MSVC.
... ("next", POINTER(cell))]
>>>
-Lets try it. We create two instances of ``cell``, and let them point to each
+Let's try it. We create two instances of ``cell``, and let them point to each
other, and finally follow the pointer chain a few times::
>>> c1 = cell()
>>>
The fact that standard Python has a frozen module and a frozen package
-(indicated by the negative size member) is not well known, it is only used for
-testing. Try it out with ``import __hello__`` for example.
+(indicated by the negative ``size`` member) is not well known, it is only used
+for testing. Try it out with ``import __hello__`` for example.
.. _ctypes-surprises: