Re: Question about strings and pointers

Dear Ananda

* Ananda Regmi <[email protected]> [100208]:
> I haven't tested your code but  I thought I will tell you the first thing
> that came in my mind.
> 
> I think you are trying to pass a python string to a c function as a c
> string.

Well, not exactly. I am trying to pass pointers into a c string.

> Try this to create the ctypes string in python and then pass pointer  with
> your function call.
> 
> import ctypes
> temp_str = 'this is the substring we would like to print'
> my_string = ctypes.create_string_buffer(temp_str, len(temp_str))

O.k. and how would i obtain pointers into the buffer? for example my_string[12]
again returns an object of type str.

V-



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