Reading and writing C structs from Python

[Edward C. Jones]

Suppose I have a C struct for example

typedef struct {
float x;
int n[4];
} test;

and a pointer to an instance of the struct

test* t = (test*) malloc(sizeof(test));

I would like to wrap this in a python object "py_t" so that (in Python) 
"x = py_t.x" reads "t.x" and "py_t.x = 13.0" writes to "t.x". Ditto for 
"py_t.n[i]". Ideally I would like to do this using a C function 
something like:

PyObject* PyObject_FromCStruct(void* t, char* format)
void* PyObject_AsCStruct(PyObject* pyo, char* format)

The format strings used in module "struct" would be fine.

My guess is that this is a job for the notoriously confusing "buffer 
interface". Does anyone have any sample code for problems like this?

Thanks,
Ed Jones