move the note to the bottom

Mariatta · Mariatta · commit e53e4d016183 · 2017-05-26T22:10:28.000-07:00
diff --git a/Doc/library/ctypes.rst b/Doc/library/ctypes.rst
@@ -147,12 +147,6 @@ functions can be accessed by indexing the dll object with the ordinal number::
 Calling functions
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 
-.. deprecated-removed:: 3.6.2 3.7
-
-   Calling :mod:`ctypes` functions is deprecated. Calling a native function
-   with incorrect arguments is unsupported and can easily cause
-   information leakage or code execution vulnerabilities.
-
 You can call these functions like any other Python callable. This example uses
 the ``time()`` function, which returns system time in seconds since the Unix
 epoch, and the ``GetModuleHandleA()`` function, which returns a win32 module
@@ -167,22 +161,14 @@ as the NULL pointer)::
    0x1d000000
    >>>
 
-:mod:`ctypes` tries to protect you from calling functions with the wrong number
-of arguments or the wrong calling convention.  Unfortunately this only works on
-Windows.  It does this by examining the stack after the function returns, so
-although an error is raised the function *has* been called::
+.. note::
 
-   >>> windll.kernel32.GetModuleHandleA()      # doctest: +WINDOWS
-   Traceback (most recent call last):
-     File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
-   ValueError: Procedure probably called with not enough arguments (4 bytes missing)
-   >>> windll.kernel32.GetModuleHandleA(0, 0)  # doctest: +WINDOWS
-   Traceback (most recent call last):
-     File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
-   ValueError: Procedure probably called with too many arguments (4 bytes in excess)
-   >>>
+   :mod:`ctypes` may raise a :exc:`ValueError` after calling the function, if
+   it detects that an invalid number of arguments were passed.  This behavior
+   should not be relied upon.  It is deprecated in 3.6.2, and will be removed
+   in 3.7.
 
-The same exception is raised when you call an ``stdcall`` function with the
+:exc:`ValueError` is raised when you call an ``stdcall`` function with the
 ``cdecl`` calling convention, or vice versa::
 
    >>> cdll.kernel32.GetModuleHandleA(None)  # doctest: +WINDOWS
