A case where raising NotImplementedError is more appropriate than just

AttributeError

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/cffi/api.py b/cffi/api.py
index 1544476..fb5e596 100644
--- a/cffi/api.py
+++ b/cffi/api.py
@@ -583,6 +583,11 @@ def _make_ffi_library(ffi, libname, flags):
             if name in library.__dict__:
                 return
         #
+        key = 'constant ' + name
+        if key in ffi._parser._declarations:
+            raise NotImplementedError("fetching a non-integer constant "
+                                      "after dlopen()")
+        #
         raise AttributeError(name)
     #
     def make_accessor(name):