The changes to PyMethod_New and the removal of unbound methods breaks ctypes' COMError on Windows. This patch doesn't address the problem but re-enables the import of _ctypes until somebody has time to fix it right. I've no time to dig into it. Also see http://bugs.python.org/issue1505

tiran · tiran · commit 578d7ab1e964 · 2007-11-27T13:05:10.000Z
diff --git a/Modules/_ctypes/_ctypes.c b/Modules/_ctypes/_ctypes.c
@@ -4624,12 +4624,13 @@ create_comerror(void)
 		PyObject *meth;
 		if (func == NULL)
 			return -1;
-		meth = PyMethod_New(func, NULL, ComError);
+		/*meth = PyMethod_New(func, NULL, ComError);
 		Py_DECREF(func);
 		if (meth == NULL)
-			return -1;
-		PyDict_SetItemString(dict, methods->ml_name, meth);
-		Py_DECREF(meth);
+			return -1;*/
+		PyDict_SetItemString(dict, methods->ml_name, func);
+		/*Py_DECREF(meth);*/
+		Py_DECREF(func);
 		++methods;
 	}
 
