[New-bugs-announce] [issue1203] ctypes doesn't work on Mac with --disable-toolbox-glue

[Bill Janssen]

New submission from Bill Janssen:

If you build Python with --disable-toolbox-glue on OS X, the attempt to 
import ctypes fails because it critically depends on "gestalt", one of 
the modules in the toolbox.  It only uses this to check whether the OS 
level is 10.4 or something earlier, and only once, at load.  Might be a 
good idea to substitute a check which doesn't require the toolbox, such 
as looking at platform.release().

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components: Library (Lib), Macintosh
messages: 56132
nosy: janssen
severity: normal
status: open
title: ctypes doesn't work on Mac with --disable-toolbox-glue
type: behavior
versions: Python 2.6, Python 3.0

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