I wasn't sure where to report this.

ctypes currently bundled with Ubuntu 16.04 and 18.04 is version 1.1.0.

ctypes available through pypi is 1.0.2.

https://pypi.org/project/ctypes/

This makes maintaining a reproducible environment with venv kind of tricky. It would be desirable to catch the pypi version up to 1.1.0.

I don't really know who to bother about this, so I'm starting here.

Thanks!

The ctypes on pypi is no longer maintained as it was merged by the original author Thomas Heller into python itself. 

This article goes over the history of it a little: https://blog.python.org/2011/04/thomas-heller-steps-down-as-ctypes.html

Why do you need the pypi version to be updated? You should just be able to import ctypes in your venv and have it use the one included in the standard library.

Hi ammar2,

Your comment completely clears up my issue. I was just uninformed.

As you have stated, no change needs to be made to the pypi version.

To enforce a version of ctypes with venv/pip, I need only enforce a python version that is packaged with that version of ctypes.

I have closed this issue report. Thank you again for your time!