René's URL Explorer Experiment

{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"Add tests to verify the behavior of `_ctypes.CopyComPointer`.","articleBody":"# Feature or enhancement\n\n### Proposal:\n\nThere are other untested features related to COM besides [`COMError`](https://docs.python.org/3.14/library/ctypes.html#ctypes.COMError).\n\n[`_ctypes.CopyComPointer`](https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/39e60aeb3837f1f23d8b7f30d3b8d9faf805ef88/Modules/_ctypes/callproc.c#L1463-L1495), as the name suggests, copies a COM pointer from *src* to *dst*.\nIt also manages reference counts before and after the copy.\n\nIn the future, this functionality may also [need to be made public similar to `COMError`](https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/126686).\nHowever, my plan is to first add tests to confirm its current behavior, and then consider making it public and adding documentation.\n\n### Has this already been discussed elsewhere?\n\nNo response given\n\n### Links to previous discussion of this feature:\n\n_No response_\n\n\u003c!-- gh-linked-prs --\u003e\n### Linked PRs\n* gh-127184\n* gh-127251\n* gh-127252\n\u003c!-- /gh-linked-prs --\u003e\n","author":{"url":"https://github.com/junkmd","@type":"Person","name":"junkmd"},"datePublished":"2024-11-23T00:53:32.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":0},"url":"https://github.com/127183/cpython/issues/127183"}