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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"Add `stdlib/_ctypes`","articleBody":"My projects use some COM-ffi packages.\r\n\r\nI use `_ctypes.COMError` or `_ctypes.CopyComPointer` too, but they are not defined in the type stub, so `mypy` type checker raises `Cannot find implementation or library stub for module named \"_ctypes\"` error.\r\n\r\nI would like to add type stubs like this.\r\n```py\r\nfrom ctypes import _CArgObject, _PointerLike\r\n# are they correct?\r\n_COMError_Details = tuple[str | None, str | None, str | None, int | None, int | None]  # Description, Source, HelpFile, HelpContext, scode\r\n\r\nclass COMError(Exception):\r\n    \"\"\"Raised when a COM method call failed.\"\"\"\r\n    hresult: int\r\n    text: str\r\n    details: _COMError_Details\r\n\r\n    def __init__(self, hresult: _COMError_HResult, text: str, details: _COMError_Details) -\u003e None: ...\r\n\r\n\r\ndef CopyComPointer(src: _PointerLike, dst: _PointerLike | _CArgObject) -\u003e int: ...  # `dst` sometimes maybe return value of `ctypes.byref`.\r\n    \"\"\"CopyComPointer(src, dst) -\u003e HRESULT value\"\"\"\r\n```\r\n\r\nBut other APIs are not clear to me.\r\n- and where the `if sys.platform == \"win32\":` needed.\r\n\r\nAny opinions would be appreciated.","author":{"url":"https://github.com/junkmd","@type":"Person","name":"junkmd"},"datePublished":"2022-08-20T02:55:45.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":6},"url":"https://github.com/8571/typeshed/issues/8571"}