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Author Oren Milman
Recipients Oren Milman
Date 2017-09-16.09:57:38
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The following code causes an assertion failure:
import ctypes
class BadStruct(ctypes.Structure):
    _fields_ = []
    _anonymous_ = ['foo']
    foo = None


this is because MakeAnonFields() (in Modules/_ctypes/stgdict.c) goes over the
names specified in _anonymous_, and looks each name up in the class by calling
PyObject_GetAttr().
in case an attribute of such a name is found (i.e. PyObject_GetAttr() succeeded),
MakeAnonFields() assumes that the attribute was created by MakeFields(), so it
asserts the type of the attribute is PyCField_Type.

however, PyObject_GetAttr() would succeed also in case it is a normal attribute
specified by the user, but isn't specified in _fields_, as in the code above.
in such a case, the type of the attribute is not PyCField_Type, and so the
assertion fails.
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2017-09-16 09:57:38Oren Milmansetrecipients: + Oren Milman
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