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Fri Jan 18 18:02:21 EST 2019 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2019-January/156073.html

On Sat, Jan 19, 2019 at 9:58 AM Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
>
> Chris Angelico wrote:
> > I would be strongly in favour of ctypes gaining a "get address of
> > object" function, which happens (in current CPythons) to return the
> > same value as id() does, but is specifically tied to ctypes.
>
> Isn't this what the ctypes.py_object type is for?

I didn't know about it when I posted that (as, I suspect, others also
didn't), and as others have pointed out, this is a prime target for a
docs update. Scanning the docs as of today does not suggest a better
way to do things.

ChrisA

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