From f40aed930a5b32971ce94be0c83f42d001b35687 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Heller Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2006 08:58:40 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Document the Struture and Union constructors. --- Doc/lib/libctypes.tex | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/Doc/lib/libctypes.tex b/Doc/lib/libctypes.tex index 5e8b289da62..db585e0d6ae 100755 --- a/Doc/lib/libctypes.tex +++ b/Doc/lib/libctypes.tex @@ -2389,6 +2389,13 @@ the fields of the base class. If the subclass definition has a separate \member{{\_}fields{\_}} variable, the fields specified in this are appended to the fields of the base class. +Structure and union constructors accept both positional and +keyword arguments. Positional arguments are used to initialize member +fields in the same order as they are appear in \member{{\_}fields{\_}}. Keyword +arguments in the constructor are interpreted as attribute assignments, +so they will initialize \member{{\_}fields{\_}} with the same name, or create new +attributes for names not present in \member{{\_}fields{\_}}. + \subsubsection{Arrays and pointers\label{ctypes-arrays-pointers}}