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This could potentially be fixable if we determine that it's better to disallow all calls to iter() on a pointer object, but I concur with Jelle that such a fix should be treated as a feature; thus, we need to document this for older versions anyway.

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Thanks @ZeroIntensity for the PR 🌮🎉.. I'm working now to backport this PR to: 3.13, 3.14, 3.15.
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GH-157925 is a backport of this pull request to the 3.15 branch.

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GH-157926 is a backport of this pull request to the 3.14 branch.

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GH-157927 is a backport of this pull request to the 3.13 branch.

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[3.13] gh-92347: Document pitfalls of ctypes.pointer iteration (GH-…
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(cherry picked from commit a3e389d)

Co-authored-by: Peter Bierma <zintensitydev@gmail.com>
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[3.14] gh-92347: Document pitfalls of ctypes.pointer iteration (GH-…
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…157801) (GH-157926)

(cherry picked from commit a3e389d)

Co-authored-by: Peter Bierma <zintensitydev@gmail.com>
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