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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
To: Dennis Kaarsemaker <dennis@kaarsemaker•net>
Cc: Luke Diamand <luke@diamand•org>,
	Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail•com>,
	Etienne Girard <etienne.g.girard@gmail•com>,
	Git Users <git@vger•kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-p4: import the ctypes module
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2015 12:36:02 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqwpuh72ot.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1445369506.8543.10.camel@kaarsemaker.net> (Dennis Kaarsemaker's message of "Tue, 20 Oct 2015 21:31:46 +0200")

Dennis Kaarsemaker <dennis@kaarsemaker•net> writes:

>> I do not follow Python development, but does the above mean that
>> with recent 2.x you can say ctypes without first saying "import
>> ctypes"?  It feels somewhat non-pythonesque that identifiers like
>> this is given to you without you asking with an explicit 'import',
>> so I am puzzled.
>
> No, you cannot do that. The reason others may not have noticed this bug is that
> in git-p4.py, ctypes is only used on windows.
>
>  111     if platform.system() == 'Windows':
>  112         free_bytes = ctypes.c_ulonglong(0)
>  113         ctypes.windll.kernel32.GetDiskFreeSpaceExW(ctypes.c_wchar_p(os.getcwd()), None, None, ctypes.pointer(free_bytes))
>
> The fact that it works for the OP with 2.7.10 is puzzling (assuming that it's
> on the same system).

Exactly.  That is where my "I am puzzled" comes from.

The patch looks obviously the right thing to do.  Luke?  Lars?

>
> diff --git a/git-p4.py b/git-p4.py
> index daa60c6..212ef2b 100755
> --- a/git-p4.py
> +++ b/git-p4.py
> @@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ import shutil
>  import stat
>  import zipfile
>  import zlib
> +import ctypes
>  
>  try:
>      from subprocess import CalledProcessError

  reply	other threads:[~2015-10-20 19:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-10-20 10:34 Git-p4 fails with NameError with python 2.7.2 Etienne Girard
2015-10-20 13:57 ` Luke Diamand
2015-10-20 16:00   ` Junio C Hamano
2015-10-20 16:42     ` Manlio Perillo
2015-10-20 19:31     ` [PATCH] git-p4: import the ctypes module Dennis Kaarsemaker
2015-10-20 19:36       ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2015-10-20 23:00         ` Luke Diamand
2015-10-21  8:23           ` Etienne Girard
2015-10-21  9:54             ` Etienne Girard
2015-10-21 20:00             ` Lars Schneider

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