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  r65868 | thomas.heller | 2008-08-19 21:25:04 +0200 (Di, 19 Aug 2008) | 3 lines

  Fix a regression introduced by rev. 63792: ctypes function pointers
  that are COM methods must have a boolean True value.
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  r65870 | thomas.heller | 2008-08-19 21:40:23 +0200 (Di, 19 Aug 2008) | 1 line

  COM method code is windows specific
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Lib/ctypes/test/test_pointers.py

-import unittest
+import unittest, sys
 
 from ctypes import *
 import _ctypes_test
@@ -183,5 +183,10 @@ class PointersTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
         self.failUnlessEqual(bool(CFUNCTYPE(None)(0)), False)
         self.failUnlessEqual(bool(CFUNCTYPE(None)(42)), True)
 
+        # COM methods are boolean True:
+        if sys.platform == "win32":
+            mth = WINFUNCTYPE(None)(42, "name", (), None)
+            self.failUnlessEqual(bool(mth), True)
+
 if __name__ == '__main__':
     unittest.main()

Misc/NEWS

@@ -18,6 +18,9 @@ Core and Builtins
   without relying on a particular implementation; remove the ill-named
   PyMemoryView() function (PyMemoryView_GET_BUFFER() can be used instead).
 
+- ctypes function pointers that are COM methods have a boolean True
+  value again.
+
 - Issue #1819: function calls with several named parameters are now on
   average 35% faster (as measured by pybench).
 

Modules/_ctypes/_ctypes.c

@@ -3858,12 +3858,16 @@ CFuncPtr_repr(CFuncPtrObject *self)
 }
 
 static int
-Pointer_bool(CDataObject *self)
+CFuncPtr_bool(CFuncPtrObject *self)
 {
-	return *(void **)self->b_ptr != NULL;
+	return ((*(void **)self->b_ptr != NULL)
+#ifdef MS_WIN32
+		|| (self->index != 0)
+#endif
+		);
 }
 
-static PyNumberMethods Pointer_as_number = {
+static PyNumberMethods CFuncPtr_as_number = {
 	0, /* nb_add */
 	0, /* nb_subtract */
 	0, /* nb_multiply */
@@ -3873,7 +3877,7 @@ static PyNumberMethods Pointer_as_number = {
 	0, /* nb_negative */
 	0, /* nb_positive */
 	0, /* nb_absolute */
-	(inquiry)Pointer_bool, /* nb_bool */
+	(inquiry)CFuncPtr_bool, /* nb_bool */
 };
 
 PyTypeObject CFuncPtr_Type = {
@@ -3887,7 +3891,7 @@ PyTypeObject CFuncPtr_Type = {
 	0,					/* tp_setattr */
 	0,					/* tp_compare */
 	(reprfunc)CFuncPtr_repr,		/* tp_repr */
-	&Pointer_as_number,			/* tp_as_number */
+	&CFuncPtr_as_number,			/* tp_as_number */
 	0,					/* tp_as_sequence */
 	0,					/* tp_as_mapping */
 	0,					/* tp_hash */
@@ -4960,6 +4964,25 @@ static PyMappingMethods Pointer_as_mapping = {
 	Pointer_subscript,
 };
 
+static int
+Pointer_bool(CDataObject *self)
+{
+	return (*(void **)self->b_ptr != NULL);
+}
+
+static PyNumberMethods Pointer_as_number = {
+	0, /* nb_add */
+	0, /* nb_subtract */
+	0, /* nb_multiply */
+	0, /* nb_remainder */
+	0, /* nb_divmod */
+	0, /* nb_power */
+	0, /* nb_negative */
+	0, /* nb_positive */
+	0, /* nb_absolute */
+	(inquiry)Pointer_bool, /* nb_bool */
+};
+
 PyTypeObject Pointer_Type = {
 	PyVarObject_HEAD_INIT(NULL, 0)
 	"_ctypes._Pointer",