summaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/numpy
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorSteve Dower <steve.dower@microsoft.com>2020-05-26 19:36:08 +0100
committerSteve Dower <steve.dower@microsoft.com>2020-05-26 19:36:08 +0100
commit739de19d3bc61583c342678f386f917725b33c25 (patch)
treebc9befc4ffbf90f055f034d9c2a34f06faf41ff2 /numpy
parent6541b11c4014650a675f016ba3b2e7a35e5998b8 (diff)
downloadnumpy-739de19d3bc61583c342678f386f917725b33c25.tar.gz
Add comment for delayed imports
Diffstat (limited to 'numpy')
-rw-r--r--numpy/core/_dtype_ctypes.py3
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/numpy/core/_dtype_ctypes.py b/numpy/core/_dtype_ctypes.py
index 017f13ff8..6d7cbb244 100644
--- a/numpy/core/_dtype_ctypes.py
+++ b/numpy/core/_dtype_ctypes.py
@@ -23,6 +23,9 @@ Unfortunately, this fails because:
* ctypes cannot handle big-endian structs with PEP3118 (bpo-32780)
"""
+# We delay-import ctypes for distributions that do not include it.
+# While this module is not used unless the user passes in ctypes
+# members, it is eagerly imported from numpy/core/__init__.py.
import numpy as np