gh-114099: Additions to standard library to support iOS (GH-117052)

Co-authored-by: Hugo van Kemenade <1324225+hugovk@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Malcolm Smith <smith@chaquo.com>
Co-authored-by: Ned Deily <nad@python.org>

Lib/_ios_support.py

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+import sys
+try:
+    from ctypes import cdll, c_void_p, c_char_p, util
+except ImportError:
+    # ctypes is an optional module. If it's not present, we're limited in what
+    # we can tell about the system, but we don't want to prevent the module
+    # from working.
+    print("ctypes isn't available; iOS system calls will not be available")
+    objc = None
+else:
+    # ctypes is available. Load the ObjC library, and wrap the objc_getClass,
+    # sel_registerName methods
+    lib = util.find_library("objc")
+    if lib is None:
+        # Failed to load the objc library
+        raise RuntimeError("ObjC runtime library couldn't be loaded")
+
+    objc = cdll.LoadLibrary(lib)
+    objc.objc_getClass.restype = c_void_p
+    objc.objc_getClass.argtypes = [c_char_p]
+    objc.sel_registerName.restype = c_void_p
+    objc.sel_registerName.argtypes = [c_char_p]
+
+
+def get_platform_ios():
+    # Determine if this is a simulator using the multiarch value
+    is_simulator = sys.implementation._multiarch.endswith("simulator")
+
+    # We can't use ctypes; abort
+    if not objc:
+        return None
+
+    # Most of the methods return ObjC objects
+    objc.objc_msgSend.restype = c_void_p
+    # All the methods used have no arguments.
+    objc.objc_msgSend.argtypes = [c_void_p, c_void_p]
+
+    # Equivalent of:
+    #   device = [UIDevice currentDevice]
+    UIDevice = objc.objc_getClass(b"UIDevice")
+    SEL_currentDevice = objc.sel_registerName(b"currentDevice")
+    device = objc.objc_msgSend(UIDevice, SEL_currentDevice)
+
+    # Equivalent of:
+    #   device_systemVersion = [device systemVersion]
+    SEL_systemVersion = objc.sel_registerName(b"systemVersion")
+    device_systemVersion = objc.objc_msgSend(device, SEL_systemVersion)
+
+    # Equivalent of:
+    #   device_systemName = [device systemName]
+    SEL_systemName = objc.sel_registerName(b"systemName")
+    device_systemName = objc.objc_msgSend(device, SEL_systemName)
+
+    # Equivalent of:
+    #   device_model = [device model]
+    SEL_model = objc.sel_registerName(b"model")
+    device_model = objc.objc_msgSend(device, SEL_model)
+
+    # UTF8String returns a const char*;
+    SEL_UTF8String = objc.sel_registerName(b"UTF8String")
+    objc.objc_msgSend.restype = c_char_p
+
+    # Equivalent of:
+    #   system = [device_systemName UTF8String]
+    #   release = [device_systemVersion UTF8String]
+    #   model = [device_model UTF8String]
+    system = objc.objc_msgSend(device_systemName, SEL_UTF8String).decode()
+    release = objc.objc_msgSend(device_systemVersion, SEL_UTF8String).decode()
+    model = objc.objc_msgSend(device_model, SEL_UTF8String).decode()
+
+    return system, release, model, is_simulator