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14 changes: 12 additions & 2 deletions Modules/_ctypes/_ctypes.c
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Expand Up @@ -4793,6 +4793,16 @@ static PyMappingMethods Array_as_mapping = {
Array_ass_subscript,
};

PyDoc_STRVAR(array_doc,
"Abstract base class for arrays.\n"
"\n"
"The recommended way to create concrete array types is by multiplying any\n"
"ctypes data type with a non-negative integer. Alternatively, you can subclass\n"
"this type and define _length_ and _type_ class variables. Array elements can\n"
"be read and written using standard subscript and slice accesses for slice\n"
"reads, the resulting object is not itself an Array."
);

PyTypeObject PyCArray_Type = {
PyVarObject_HEAD_INIT(NULL, 0)
"_ctypes.Array",
Expand All @@ -4813,8 +4823,8 @@ PyTypeObject PyCArray_Type = {
0, /* tp_getattro */
0, /* tp_setattro */
&PyCData_as_buffer, /* tp_as_buffer */
Py_TPFLAGS_DEFAULT | Py_TPFLAGS_BASETYPE, /* tp_flags */
PyDoc_STR("XXX to be provided"), /* tp_doc */
Py_TPFLAGS_DEFAULT | Py_TPFLAGS_BASETYPE, /* tp_flags */
array_doc, /* tp_doc */
(traverseproc)PyCData_traverse, /* tp_traverse */
(inquiry)PyCData_clear, /* tp_clear */
0, /* tp_richcompare */
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