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#14201: Update ctypes docs to match behavior changed from 214b28d7a999. 

Original patch by Erik Johansson, slightly updated by Meador Inge.
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R David Murray 2014-10-04 18:25:07 -04:00
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The default mode which is used to load shared libraries. On OSX 10.3, this is
*RTLD_GLOBAL*, otherwise it is the same as *RTLD_LOCAL*.
Instances of these classes have no public methods, however :meth:`__getattr__`
and :meth:`__getitem__` have special behavior: functions exported by the shared
library can be accessed as attributes of by index. Please note that both
:meth:`__getattr__` and :meth:`__getitem__` cache their result, so calling them
repeatedly returns the same object each time.
Instances of these classes have no public methods. Functions exported by the
shared library can be accessed as attributes or by index. Please note that
accessing the function through an attribute caches the result and therefore
accessing it repeatedly returns the same object each time. On the other hand,
accessing it through an index returns a new object each time:
>>> libc.time == libc.time
True
>>> libc['time'] == libc['time']
False
The following public attributes are available, their name starts with an
underscore to not clash with exported function names: