From: Thomas Heller <theller@ctypes.org>
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 14:07:12 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: NEWS entry for:
X-Git-Tag: v2.6b1~104
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=1cec7aa7c73163d2ec3ca793ec76be698f4c6558;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

NEWS entry for:
Add an optional 'offset' parameter to byref, defaulting to zero.
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diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index f36b414f4664..4b9f21c7a8fd 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -77,6 +77,10 @@ Extension Modules
 Library
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+- The ctypes.byref function now takes an optional second parameter
+  which allows to specify an offset in bytes for the constructed
+  pointer-like object.
+
 - Added the ast module.
 
 - Factored out the indentation cleaning from inspect.getdoc() into