Message 301034 - Python tracker

The following code causes PyCData_setstate() (in Modules/_ctypes/_ctypes.c) to
raise a SystemError:

import ctypes
class BadStruct(ctypes.Structure):
    def __dict__(self):
        pass

BadStruct().__setstate__({}, b'foo')

this is because PyCData_setstate() assumes that the __dict__ attribute is a dict.


while we are here, I wonder whether we should change the format given to 
PyArg_ParseTuple() to "!Os#", so that the following would raise a TypeError:

import ctypes
class MyStruct(ctypes.Structure):
    pass

MyStruct().__setstate__(42, b'foo')

AttributeError: 'int' object has no attribute 'keys'


what do you think?