Move some pointer-related definitions from ctypes/__init__.pyi to _ctypes.pyi (#10133)

stdlib/_ctypes.pyi

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ import sys
 from _typeshed import ReadableBuffer, WriteableBuffer
 from abc import abstractmethod
 from collections.abc import Iterable, Iterator, Mapping, Sequence
-from ctypes import CDLL, _CArgObject, _PointerLike
+from ctypes import CDLL, _CArgObject
 from typing import Any, Generic, TypeVar, overload
 from typing_extensions import Self, TypeAlias
 
@@ -70,6 +70,25 @@ class _SimpleCData(Generic[_T], _CData):
     # but we can't use overloads without creating many, many mypy false-positive errors
     def __init__(self, value: _T = ...) -> None: ...  # pyright: ignore[reportInvalidTypeVarUse]
 
+class _CanCastTo(_CData): ...
+class _PointerLike(_CanCastTo): ...
+
+class _Pointer(Generic[_CT], _PointerLike, _CData):
+    _type_: type[_CT]
+    contents: _CT
+    @overload
+    def __init__(self) -> None: ...
+    @overload
+    def __init__(self, arg: _CT) -> None: ...
+    @overload
+    def __getitem__(self, __key: int) -> Any: ...
+    @overload
+    def __getitem__(self, __key: slice) -> list[Any]: ...
+    def __setitem__(self, __key: int, __value: Any) -> None: ...
+
+def POINTER(type: type[_CT]) -> type[_Pointer[_CT]]: ...
+def pointer(__arg: _CT) -> _Pointer[_CT]: ...
+
 class _CField:
     offset: int
     size: int

stdlib/ctypes/__init__.pyi

@@ -1,20 +1,25 @@
 import sys
 from _ctypes import (
+    POINTER as POINTER,
     RTLD_GLOBAL as RTLD_GLOBAL,
     RTLD_LOCAL as RTLD_LOCAL,
     ArgumentError as ArgumentError,
     Array as Array,
     Structure as Structure,
     Union as Union,
+    _CanCastTo as _CanCastTo,
     _CData as _CData,
     _CDataMeta as _CDataMeta,
     _CField as _CField,
+    _Pointer as _Pointer,
+    _PointerLike as _PointerLike,
     _SimpleCData as _SimpleCData,
     _StructUnionBase as _StructUnionBase,
     _StructUnionMeta as _StructUnionMeta,
     addressof as addressof,
     alignment as alignment,
     get_errno as get_errno,
+    pointer as pointer,
     resize as resize,
     set_errno as set_errno,
     sizeof as sizeof,
@@ -31,7 +36,6 @@ if sys.version_info >= (3, 9):
 
 _T = TypeVar("_T")
 _DLLT = TypeVar("_DLLT", bound=CDLL)
-_CT = TypeVar("_CT", bound=_CData)
 
 DEFAULT_MODE: int
 
@@ -85,9 +89,6 @@ if sys.platform == "win32":
 pydll: LibraryLoader[PyDLL]
 pythonapi: PyDLL
 
-class _CanCastTo(_CData): ...
-class _PointerLike(_CanCastTo): ...
-
 _ECT: TypeAlias = Callable[[type[_CData] | None, _FuncPointer, tuple[_CData, ...]], _CData]
 _PF: TypeAlias = tuple[int] | tuple[int, str] | tuple[int, str, Any]
 
@@ -148,22 +149,6 @@ if sys.platform == "win32":
 
 def memmove(dst: _CVoidPLike, src: _CVoidConstPLike, count: int) -> int: ...
 def memset(dst: _CVoidPLike, c: int, count: int) -> int: ...
-def POINTER(type: type[_CT]) -> type[_Pointer[_CT]]: ...
-
-class _Pointer(Generic[_CT], _PointerLike, _CData):
-    _type_: type[_CT]
-    contents: _CT
-    @overload
-    def __init__(self) -> None: ...
-    @overload
-    def __init__(self, arg: _CT) -> None: ...
-    @overload
-    def __getitem__(self, __key: int) -> Any: ...
-    @overload
-    def __getitem__(self, __key: slice) -> list[Any]: ...
-    def __setitem__(self, __key: int, __value: Any) -> None: ...
-
-def pointer(__arg: _CT) -> _Pointer[_CT]: ...
 def string_at(address: _CVoidConstPLike, size: int = -1) -> bytes: ...
 
 if sys.platform == "win32":

tests/stubtest_allowlists/py3_common.txt

@@ -335,7 +335,6 @@ wave.Wave_read.initfp
 wave.Wave_write.initfp
 
 _ctypes.CFuncPtr
-_ctypes.POINTER
 _ctypes.PyObj_FromPtr
 _ctypes.Py_DECREF
 _ctypes.Py_INCREF
@@ -343,7 +342,6 @@ _ctypes.buffer_info
 _ctypes.byref
 _ctypes.call_cdeclfunction
 _ctypes.call_function
-_ctypes.pointer
 
 # ==========
 # Allowlist entries that cannot or should not be fixed