Issue #23606: Adds note to ctypes documentation regarding cdll.msvcrt.

zooba · zooba · commit d669b6bd0ac4 · 2016-03-12T08:25:22.000-08:00
diff --git a/Doc/library/ctypes.rst b/Doc/library/ctypes.rst
@@ -61,6 +61,12 @@ convention::
 
 Windows appends the usual ``.dll`` file suffix automatically.
 
+.. note::
+    Accessing the standard C library through ``cdll.msvcrt`` will use an
+    outdated version of the library that may be incompatible with the one
+    being used by Python. Where possible, use native Python functionality,
+    or else import and use the ``msvcrt`` module.
+
 On Linux, it is required to specify the filename *including* the extension to
 load a library, so attribute access can not be used to load libraries. Either the
 :meth:`LoadLibrary` method of the dll loaders should be used, or you should load
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -284,6 +284,8 @@ Library
 Documentation
 -------------
 
+- Issue #23606: Adds note to ctypes documentation regarding cdll.msvcrt.
+
 - Issue #25500: Fix documentation to not claim that __import__ is searched for
   in the global scope.
 
