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5 changes: 3 additions & 2 deletions Doc/library/ctypes.rst
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Expand Up @@ -1755,8 +1755,9 @@ These prefabricated library loaders are available:
:c:expr:`int`, which is of course not always the truth, so you have to assign
the correct :attr:`!restype` attribute to use these functions.

Note that if the Python interpreter is statically linked, this will be
``None``, as ``dlopen`` is not possible in this case.
.. note::

If the Python interpreter is statically linked, this may be ``None``.

@ngoldbaum ngoldbaum Oct 3, 2026

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This is fine but if you'd like you could say that in practice musl will return None but glibc won't.


.. audit-event:: ctypes.dlopen name ctypes.LibraryLoader

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