From 4b318f8be941ee75d00aa86d1a61a2ebc4992215 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2017 09:37:56 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Issue #29219: Fixed infinite recursion in the repr of
 uninitialized ctypes.CDLL instances.

---
 Lib/ctypes/__init__.py | 4 ++++
 Misc/NEWS              | 3 +++
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Lib/ctypes/__init__.py b/Lib/ctypes/__init__.py
index 0d860784bc8..1469b8bade0 100644
--- a/Lib/ctypes/__init__.py
+++ b/Lib/ctypes/__init__.py
@@ -327,6 +327,10 @@ class CDLL(object):
     """
     _func_flags_ = _FUNCFLAG_CDECL
     _func_restype_ = c_int
+    # default values for repr
+    _name = '<uninitialized>'
+    _handle = 0
+    _FuncPtr = None
 
     def __init__(self, name, mode=DEFAULT_MODE, handle=None,
                  use_errno=False,
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index e1ae98f6c02..159b2255da6 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -13,6 +13,9 @@ Core and Builtins
 Library
 -------
 
+- Issue #29219: Fixed infinite recursion in the repr of uninitialized
+  ctypes.CDLL instances.
+
 - Issue #28969: Fixed race condition in C implementation of functools.lru_cache.
   KeyError could be raised when cached function with full cache was
   simultaneously called from differen threads with the same uncached arguments.