From: Thomas Heller <theller@ctypes.org>
Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2006 08:58:40 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Document the Struture and Union constructors.
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Document the Struture and Union constructors.
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diff --git a/Doc/lib/libctypes.tex b/Doc/lib/libctypes.tex
index 5e8b289da6..db585e0d6a 100755
--- a/Doc/lib/libctypes.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/libctypes.tex
@@ -2389,6 +2389,13 @@ the fields of the base class.  If the subclass definition has a
 separate \member{{\_}fields{\_}} variable, the fields specified in this are
 appended to the fields of the base class.
 
+Structure and union constructors accept both positional and
+keyword arguments.  Positional arguments are used to initialize member
+fields in the same order as they are appear in \member{{\_}fields{\_}}.  Keyword
+arguments in the constructor are interpreted as attribute assignments,
+so they will initialize \member{{\_}fields{\_}} with the same name, or create new
+attributes for names not present in \member{{\_}fields{\_}}.
+
 
 \subsubsection{Arrays and pointers\label{ctypes-arrays-pointers}}