python, swig and typemaps..

[Grzegorz Dostatni]

Hello... 
I've got a problem with swig and typemaps.  What I'm trying to do is to
have a c subroutine working on some data.  I'd love to pass the data into
c just as a char* (that's what it is).  The problem is it is full of
zeroes (so c null-terminated string will not work very well...)  The best
way would be to have a it so that from python I can call:
example("Hello")
and swig will call the corresponding c function as 
void example(char*, int size).  If that's not possible it's ok to pass in
the size of the string. ie python:
example( "Hello", len("Hello"))
when I'm allocating the char *, how do I get the other parameter (ie
size?)...

Thanx a lot..
Grzegorz Dostatni


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