C type buffer copy

[Ivan Van Laningham]

Hi All--

def testCode(data):
   buf=data[:]
   # and I hope you're going to do something with buf,
   # because otherwise this function's a bit of a waste;-)

"joe at gmail.com" wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> How does Python deal with C type memory buffers. Does Python return
> everything as an object irrespective of the data type?
> 
> Here's what i am trying to achieve?
> 
> testCode(unsigned char buf, unsigned long len)
> {
>     unsigned long data=0x0;
>     while (len--)
>     {
>         *buf++ = (unsigned char)data++
>     }
>     ....
> }
> 
> What's the best way to deal with this in python?
> 

Metta,
Ivan
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