[New-bugs-announce] [issue6068] c_ulonglong structure members appear read-only

[higstar]

New submission from higstar <adrian at higstar.com>:

When defining a structure with members of ctype type c_ulonglong, some
members appear read only?

I created this test.py and appended the results below:
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import ctypes
import time

class all_ulong(ctypes.BigEndianStructure):
    _fields_    = [
                   ("Data0",   ctypes.c_ulong, 4),
                   ("Data1",   ctypes.c_ulong, 4),
                  ]
class all_ulonglong(ctypes.BigEndianStructure):
    _fields_    = [
                   ("Data0",   ctypes.c_ulonglong, 4),
                   ("Data1",   ctypes.c_ulonglong, 4),
                  ]

def inc_both_members(test):
    test.Data0 += 1
    test.Data1 += 1
def print_both_members(test):
    print("Data0 is %d, Data1 is %d for %s"%(test.Data0, test.Data1,
test.__class__.__name__))

tests = [all_ulong(), all_ulonglong()]
for test in tests:
    print_both_members(test)

Failed = False
while not Failed:
    for test in tests:
        inc_both_members(test)
        print_both_members(test)
    if not tests[0].Data0 == tests[1].Data0: 
        Failed = True
    if not tests[0].Data1 == tests[1].Data1: 
        Failed = True
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>c:\python25\python.exe test.py
Data0 is 0, Data1 is 0 for all_ulong
Data0 is 0, Data1 is 0 for all_ulonglong
Data0 is 1, Data1 is 1 for all_ulong
Data0 is 1, Data1 is 1 for all_ulonglong
Data0 is 2, Data1 is 2 for all_ulong
Data0 is 2, Data1 is 1 for all_ulonglong

>c:\python26\python.exe test.py
Data0 is 0, Data1 is 0 for all_ulong
Data0 is 0, Data1 is 0 for all_ulonglong
Data0 is 1, Data1 is 1 for all_ulong
Data0 is 1, Data1 is 1 for all_ulonglong
Data0 is 2, Data1 is 2 for all_ulong
Data0 is 2, Data1 is 1 for all_ulonglong

>c:\python30\python.exe test.py
Data0 is 0, Data1 is 0 for all_ulong
Data0 is 0, Data1 is 0 for all_ulonglong
Data0 is 1, Data1 is 1 for all_ulong
Data0 is 1, Data1 is 1 for all_ulonglong
Data0 is 2, Data1 is 2 for all_ulong
Data0 is 2, Data1 is 1 for all_ulonglong


As you can see the second member Data1, is not incrementing correctly.

I found this issue because I started using c_ulonglong types for all
members so that when casting a byte stream to one of these ctype
structures, there are no incorrect values when casting to a member
crossing byte/word/long boundaries.

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assignee: theller
components: ctypes
messages: 88110
nosy: higstar, theller
severity: normal
status: open
title: c_ulonglong structure members appear read-only
type: compile error
versions: Python 2.5, Python 2.6, Python 3.0

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