From 4372b1d7336e2dc61be3e8f5fe2b0baaf9792746 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Semyon Moroz <donbarbos@proton.me>
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2026 10:09:58 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] [ctypes] Soft deprecate ARRAY (#15204)

---
 stdlib/ctypes/__init__.pyi | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/stdlib/ctypes/__init__.pyi b/stdlib/ctypes/__init__.pyi
index be2e7449e..8d048aa97 100644
--- a/stdlib/ctypes/__init__.pyi
+++ b/stdlib/ctypes/__init__.pyi
@@ -169,11 +169,12 @@ def create_unicode_buffer(init: int | str, size: int | None = None) -> Array[c_w
 if sys.version_info >= (3, 13):
     @deprecated("Deprecated since Python 3.13; will be removed in Python 3.15.")
     def SetPointerType(pointer: type[_Pointer[Any]], cls: _CTypeBaseType) -> None: ...
+    @deprecated("Soft deprecated since Python 3.13. Use multiplication instead.")
+    def ARRAY(typ: _CT, len: int) -> Array[_CT]: ...
 
 else:
     def SetPointerType(pointer: type[_Pointer[Any]], cls: _CTypeBaseType) -> None: ...
-
-def ARRAY(typ: _CT, len: int) -> Array[_CT]: ...  # Soft Deprecated, no plans to remove
+    def ARRAY(typ: _CT, len: int) -> Array[_CT]: ...
 
 if sys.platform == "win32":
     def DllCanUnloadNow() -> int: ...