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Author b1tninja
Recipients b1tninja
Date 2019-11-20.02:34:03
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When subclassing the ctypes.Structure class, __new__ and __init__ are not invoked when using the inherited classmethod from_buffer_copy to create the object.

I think this is because tp_alloc is ultimately used by GenericPyCData_new when creating the object using the from_buffer_copy classmethod inherited from _CData.

https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/be143ec99674ba38c5811f34cdb85ef39c2dc8f8/Modules/_ctypes/_ctypes.c#L3202

Expected behavior: creation of Structure subclass object would invoke __new__ and possibly __init__.
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