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The classesctypes.BigEndianUnion andctypes.LittleEndianUnion was added in Python 3.11. In the case of the use of anUnion in aStructure class that match the opposite system endianness, theUnion class can't be used as shown below:
# coding: utf-8importsysimportctypesascassertsys.byteorder=="little""""struct MyStruct { unsigned char a; unsigned char b:};struct MainStruct { union { struct MyStruct my_struct; short field_ab; } my_union; unsigned char foo;};"""classMyStruct(c.BigEndianStructure):_fields_= [("a",c.c_byte), ("b",c.c_byte)]classMyUnion(c.BigEndianUnion):_fields_= [("my_struct",MyStruct), ("ab",c.c_short)]classMainStruct(c.BigEndianStructure):_fields_= [("my_union",MyUnion), ("foo",c.c_byte)]
The following traceback is given by the interpretor:
TypeError Traceback (most recent call last)Cell In[1], line 28 24 class MyUnion(c.BigEndianUnion): 25 _fields_ = [("my_struct", MyStruct), ("ab", c.c_short)]---> 28 class MainStruct(c.BigEndianStructure): 29 _fields_ = [("my_union", MyUnion), ("foo", c.c_byte)]File ~\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\ctypes\_endian.py:31, in _swapped_meta.__setattr__(self, attrname, value) 29 typ = desc[1] 30 rest = desc[2:]---> 31 fields.append((name, _other_endian(typ)) + rest) 32 value = fields 33 super().__setattr__(attrname, value)File ~\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\ctypes\_endian.py:21, in _other_endian(typ) 19 if issubclass(typ, Structure): 20 return typ---> 21 raise TypeError("This type does not support other endian: %s" % typ)TypeError: This type does not support other endian: <class '__main__.MyUnion'>Your environment
- CPython versions tested on: Interpreter compiled from the main branch in debug mode and also Python 3.11 (coming from the official release)
- Operating system and architecture: Windows 10 x64
Linked PRs
- gh-105102: fix nested unions in structures when the system byteorder is the opposite #105106
- [3.12] gh-105102: Fix nested unions in structures when the system byteorder is the opposite (GH-105106) #114204
- [3.11] gh-105102: Fix nested unions in structures when the system byteorder is the opposite (GH-105106) #114205