misleading comment regarding C

[christophbaumgartner]

BPO	19319
Nosy	@ezio-melotti

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title = 'misleading comment regarding C'
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[christophbaumgartner]

The documentation about ctypes.sizeof:

"Returns the size in bytes of a ctypes type or instance memory buffer. Does the same as the C sizeof() function."

'sizeof' is an operator. I would drop the parentheses as well.

[python-dev]

New changeset 737b79e524aa by Ezio Melotti in branch '2.7':
bpo-19319: fix ctypes docs: sizeof is an operator in C, not a function.
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/737b79e524aa

New changeset d8e352e2f110 by Ezio Melotti in branch '3.3':
bpo-19319: fix ctypes docs: sizeof is an operator in C, not a function.
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/d8e352e2f110

New changeset 49f8d07b6c5c by Ezio Melotti in branch 'default':
bpo-19319: merge with 3.3.
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/49f8d07b6c5c

[ezio-melotti]

Fixed, thanks for the report!