From: Petr Viktorin <encukou@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2025 09:59:20 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: gh-61103: Add What's New entry for complex types in ctypes (GH-129129)
X-Git-Tag: v3.14.0a5~298
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=a65f802692bd04e1ad18e467d4ccb033b049c2a7;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

gh-61103: Add What's New entry for complex types in ctypes (GH-129129)

Co-authored-by: Sergey B Kirpichev <skirpichev@gmail.com>
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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.14.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.14.rst
index 0dcecd4944f2..5652a63ce8d7 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.14.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.14.rst
@@ -351,6 +351,12 @@ ctypes
   callback functions that are passed dynamically-sized buffers.
   (Contributed by Rian Hunter in :gh:`112018`.)
 
+* Complex types, :class:`~ctypes.c_float_complex`,
+  :class:`~ctypes.c_double_complex` and :class:`~ctypes.c_longdouble_complex`,
+  are now available if both the compiler and the ``libffi`` library support
+  complex C types.
+  (Contributed by Sergey B Kirpichev in :gh:`61103`).
+
 
 datetime
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