Fix a ctypes regression of Python 3.8. When a ctypes.Structure is passed by copy to a function, ctypes internals created a temporary object which had the side effect of calling the structure finalizer (__del__) twice. The Python semantics requires a finalizer to be called exactly once. Fix ctypes internals to no longer call the finalizer twice. Create a new internal StructParam_Type which is only used by _ctypes_callproc() to call PyMem_Free(ptr) on Py_DECREF(argument). StructUnionType_paramfunc() creates such object.
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Fix a ctypes regression of Python 3.8. When a ctypes.Structure is passed by copy to a function, ctypes internals created a temporary object which had the side effect of calling the structure finalizer (__del__) twice. The Python semantics requires a finalizer to be called exactly once. Fix ctypes internals to no longer call the finalizer twice. Create a new internal StructParam_Type which is only used by _ctypes_callproc() to call PyMem_Free(ptr) on Py_DECREF(argument). StructUnionType_paramfunc() creates such object. (cherry picked from commit 96b4087) Co-authored-by: Victor Stinner <vstinner@redhat.com>
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Fix a ctypes regression of Python 3.8. When a ctypes.Structure is passed by copy to a function, ctypes internals created a temporary object which had the side effect of calling the structure finalizer (__del__) twice. The Python semantics requires a finalizer to be called exactly once. Fix ctypes internals to no longer call the finalizer twice. Create a new internal StructParam_Type which is only used by _ctypes_callproc() to call PyMem_Free(ptr) on Py_DECREF(argument). StructUnionType_paramfunc() creates such object. (cherry picked from commit 96b4087) Co-authored-by: Victor Stinner <vstinner@redhat.com>
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Fix a ctypes regression of Python 3.8. When a ctypes.Structure is passed by copy to a function, ctypes internals created a temporary object which had the side effect of calling the structure finalizer (__del__) twice. The Python semantics requires a finalizer to be called exactly once. Fix ctypes internals to no longer call the finalizer twice. Create a new internal StructParam_Type which is only used by _ctypes_callproc() to call PyMem_Free(ptr) on Py_DECREF(argument). StructUnionType_paramfunc() creates such object.
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Fix a ctypes regression of Python 3.8. When a ctypes.Structure is passed by copy to a function, ctypes internals created a temporary object which had the side effect of calling the structure finalizer (__del__) twice. The Python semantics requires a finalizer to be called exactly once. Fix ctypes internals to no longer call the finalizer twice. Create a new internal StructParam_Type which is only used by _ctypes_callproc() to call PyMem_Free(ptr) on Py_DECREF(argument). StructUnionType_paramfunc() creates such object.
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Fix a ctypes regression of Python 3.8. When a ctypes.Structure is passed by copy to a function, ctypes internals created a temporary object which had the side effect of calling the structure finalizer (__del__) twice. The Python semantics requires a finalizer to be called exactly once. Fix ctypes internals to no longer call the finalizer twice. Create a new internal StructParam_Type which is only used by _ctypes_callproc() to call PyMem_Free(ptr) on Py_DECREF(argument). StructUnionType_paramfunc() creates such object.
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