Re: ctypes.CDLL("") fails on MS Windows

Am 22.12.2011 08:21, schrieb Hart's Antler:
> In Linux passing an empty string to ctypes.CDLL("") will return a handle
> to the current process, this can be useful to get to extra functions
> when Python is embedded. On Windows this trick fails, and raises a
> WindowsError.

On Windows, you can use something like this:

exe = ctypes.CDLL("myprocess",
                   ctypes.windll.kernel32.GetModuleHandleA(None))

to get the current process.  However, I'm not sure if this makes
sense:  an exe cannot export functions.

> As a workaround i tried loading cygwin1.dll from ctypes and using dlopen
> directly, but the call blocks and never returns.

I don't know anything about cygwin.

Thomas

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