Hi,
can anybody with ctypes experience tell me, how to handle a C function
that returns an unsigned char*? Obviously it is not a restype of
c_char_p.
Best regards,
Oliver 5 17235 ol************@ gmail.com schrieb:
Hi,
can anybody with ctypes experience tell me, how to handle a C function
that returns an unsigned char*? Obviously it is not a restype of
c_char_p.
From the docs:
c_ubyte
Represents the C unsigned char datatype, it interprets the value as
small integer. The constructor accepts an optional integer initializer;
no overflow checking is done.
Diez
On 19 ago, 14:44, "oliver.andr... @gmail.com"
<oliver.andr... @gmail.comwrote :
Hi,
can anybody with ctypes experience tell me, how to handle a C function
that returns an unsigned char*? Obviously it is not a restype of
c_char_p.
Being signed or unsigned is not important here. But you have to
disambiguate "returns an unsigned char*"
- the function returns a string of bytes (unsigned char), null-
terminated.
- the function returns a pointer to a single byte.
In the first case, use a plain c_char_p - the individual "chars" are
already unsigned in Python (that is, ord(xxx[i]) is always positive)
In the second case, first define the pointer type:
c_ubyte_p = POINTER(c_ubyte )
your_function.r estype = c_ubyte_p
--
Gabriel Genellina
On 19 Aug., 20:40, Gabriel Genellina <gagsl-...@yahoo.com.a rwrote:
In the first case, use a plain c_char_p - the individual "chars" are
already unsigned in Python (that is, ord(xxx[i]) is always positive)
In the second case, first define the pointer type:
c_ubyte_p = POINTER(c_ubyte )
your_function.r estype = c_ubyte_p
I will have to look into that. My function I want to wrap has the
following signature
unsigned char *MagickGetImage Profile(MagickW and *wand,const char
*name,
size_t *length)
Well, the first argument and the second are straight forward, and work
as expected. The last argument also works and it should take up the
length of the string (unsigned char *). If I now do
dll.MagickGetIm ageProfile.rest ype = c_char_p
result = dll.MagickGetIm ageProfile(wand , "8bim", byref(length))
result is either an empty string or a 3 bytes long string, while
length containes the correct length of 1086 bytes for example. I also
tried
dll.MagickGetIm ageProfile.rest ype = POINTER(c_ubyte )
with the same result. But maybe I should do some further debugging....
Best regards,
Oliver
En Mon, 20 Aug 2007 08:30:50 -0300, ol************@ gmail.com
<ol************ @gmail.comescri bi�:
On 19 Aug., 20:40, Gabriel Genellina <gagsl-...@yahoo.com.a rwrote:
>In the first case, use a plain c_char_p - the individual "chars" are already unsigned in Python (that is, ord(xxx[i]) is always positive) In the second case, first define the pointer type:
c_ubyte_p = POINTER(c_ubyte ) your_function. restype = c_ubyte_p
I will have to look into that. My function I want to wrap has the
following signature
unsigned char *MagickGetImage Profile(MagickW and *wand,const char
*name,
size_t *length)
Well, the first argument and the second are straight forward, and work
as expected. The last argument also works and it should take up the
length of the string (unsigned char *). If I now do
So, if I understand correctly, after the call, *length will contain the
length of the buffer pointed by the function result.
dll.MagickGetIm ageProfile.rest ype = c_char_p
result = dll.MagickGetIm ageProfile(wand , "8bim", byref(length))
result is either an empty string or a 3 bytes long string, while
length containes the correct length of 1086 bytes for example. I also
tried
If the result can contain nul bytes, you have to specify its size
explicitely (else it will be truncated at the first zero). Use the
string_at utility function:
result_str = string_at(resul t, length)
(That should work fine, I presume...)
--
Gabriel Genellina
On 23 Aug., 05:46, "Gabriel Genellina" <gagsl-...@yahoo.com.a rwrote:
If the result can contain nul bytes, you have to specify its size
explicitely (else it will be truncated at the first zero). Use the
string_at utility function:
result_str = string_at(resul t, length)
(That should work fine, I presume...)
Thank a lot, that does exactly what I expected it to do.
Best regards,
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