[New-bugs-announce] [issue30510] c_bool type not supported for BigEndianStructure on little-endian machine

[Hassan El Karouni]

New submission from Hassan El Karouni:

When trying to create a BigEndianStructure containing a c_bool field (on a windows machine), i get the following traceback:

  File "/home/elkarouh/anaconda2/lib/python2.7/ctypes/_endian.py", line 24, in _other_endian
    raise TypeError("This type does not support other endian: %s" % typ)
TypeError: This type does not support other endian: <class 'ctypes.c_bool'>

I fixed the problem by patching __init__.py under the ctypes directory by adding the following two lines:

c_bool.__ctype_le__ = c_bool.__ctype_be__ = c_bool
_check_size(c_bool)

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components: ctypes
messages: 294747
nosy: Hassan El Karouni
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: c_bool type not supported for BigEndianStructure on little-endian machine
type: compile error
versions: Python 2.7

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