Re: How to pass String BYREF to C function?

Hey Lynton,
  I guess the casting and create_stream_buffer was for not as pointed out by
TP, the following seems to work fine.I'm really a hack at ctypes...


        stream = ctypes.c_char_p("hello world")
        exitResult = ctypes.c_char_p()
        result = executeUserExit(stream, ctypes.byref(exitResult))

Andrew










On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 8:11 AM, Lynton Grice
<[email protected]>wrote:

>  Hi Andrew,
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> Thanks for the help on this, great stuff.
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> If I run the code from a C client I will get “half the first string”....
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> If I print out the “exitResult” like you specified below:
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> print ctypes.c_char_p(exitResult.value).value
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> I get the following output in WingIDE
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> helloö
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> So it works but what are those funny characters at the end of the string?
> It is not serious though, I am just curious...
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> Do I need to change my C code to get rid of those funny characters?
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> int executeUserExit(char *buffer, char **userExitResultBuffer){
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>    int total_len;
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>    total_len = strlen(buffer) / 2;
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>    *userExitResultBuffer = (char*) malloc(total_len);
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>    strncpy(*userExitResultBuffer, buffer, total_len);
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>    return 0;
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> }
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> Thanks again
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> Lynton
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> *From:* [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] *On
> Behalf Of *Andrew Wilson
> *Sent:* 18 August 2010 02:00 PM
> *To:* Lynton Grice
> *Cc:* [email protected]; [email protected]
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> *Subject:* Re: [ctypes-users] How to pass String BYREF to C function?
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> Lynton,
>   The following code is a hack; keep in mind that python strings are
> immutable so your c_char_p variables can't be written to by the dll.
> Instead you should be using "create_string_buffer" for writeable strings.  I
> wasn't so sure about the char** variable so I just made it an int pointer
> and then cast it back to a string once the result were in.
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> import ctypes
> import os
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> if __name__ == "__main__":
>     if os.name=='nt':
>         userExit = ctypes.cdll.LoadLibrary("libUserExits.dll")
>         executeUserExit = userExit.executeUserExit
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>         stream = ctypes.create_string_buffer("hello world")
>         exitResult = ctypes.c_uint(0)
>         result = executeUserExit(stream, ctypes.byref(exitResult))
>         print result, stream.value, ctypes.c_char_p(exitResult.value).value
>     print "Finished"
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>  On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 4:24 AM, Lynton Grice <
> [email protected]> wrote:
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> Hi there,
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> Thanks for the comments. Please note that this is just a test script so I
> am not fussed about the “os.name”....I can take all that extra out
> later....I just wanted to get it working for now.
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> I tried out something like what you said but still no luck:
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> import ctypes as c
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> userExit = c.cdll.LoadLibrary("libUserExits.dll")
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> executeUserExit = userExit.executeUserExit
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> executeUserExit.argtypes = [c.c_char_p, c.POINTER(c.c_char_p)]
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> executeUserExit.restype = c.c_int
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> stream = (c.c_char * 20)(*list("hello world"))
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> exitResult = c.c_char_p()
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> result = executeUserExit(c.byref(stream), c.byref(exitResult))
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> print result
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> print "Finished"
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> I will keep trying with a couple options...thanks for the push in the right
> direction though, much appreciated
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>
> Lynton
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> *From:* [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
> *Sent:* 18 August 2010 09:46 AM
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> *To:* Lynton Grice
> *Subject:* Re: [ctypes-users] How to pass String BYREF to C function?
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> On Aug 17, 2010, at 8:08 PM, Lynton Grice wrote:
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> Hi there,
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> I have the following example C function that basically take 2 arguments and
> “halves the first string” and puts that result in the second argument.
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> int executeUserExit(char *buffer, char **userExitResultBuffer){
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>    int total_len;
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>    total_len = strlen(buffer) / 2;
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>    *userExitResultBuffer = (char*) malloc(total_len);
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>    strncpy(*userExitResultBuffer, buffer, total_len);
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>    return 0;
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> }
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> I have call this from C code happily, but am having trouble from Python.
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> I created a DLL from the code above
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> import ctypes as c
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> import os
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> if __name__ == "__main__":
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>       if os.name=='nt':
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>             userExit = c.cdll.LoadLibrary("libUserExits.dll")
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>             executeUserExit = userExit.executeUserExit
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>             executeUserExit.argtypes = [c.c_char_p, c.c_char_p]
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>             executeUserExit.restype = c.c_int
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>             stream = c.c_char_p()
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>             stream.value = "hello world"
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>             exitResult = c.c_char_p()
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>             result = executeUserExit(c.pointer(stream),
> c.byref(exitResult))
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>             print result
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>       print "Finished"
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> There is a lot wrong with this on a pure python-level. Please think of why
> you use __name__ == "__main__" and os.name for a script you clearly don't
> use somewhere else.
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> But that's just a remark.
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> The important thing here is that you have to create *arrays* of characters,
> the same as with C. Then you can create pointers or byref references for
> this.
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> Something like this (untested):
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>   a = (c_char * 20)(*list("foobarbaz"))
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>   b = c_char_p()
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>   result = executeUserExit(byref(a), byref(b))
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> And of course the declaration of executeUserExit is wrong, you need
> argtypes to be [c.c_char_p, POINTER(c.c_char_p)]
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> Diez
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