C Extension - return an array of longs or pointer?

[Jorgen Grahn]

On 12 Oct 2005 04:46:34 -0700, Java and Swing <codecraig at gmail.com> wrote:
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> ...my question is...in the c code, result is a pointer to an array of
> longs, how can I get the returned result to be a list or something
> similar to an array in Python?

RTFM. There are API functions to create an empty list [] and to append
objects to a list. PyList_something(), I think.

> ...I also have a function which returns a character array (denoted by a
> char *)...would it work the same as the previous question?

You might want to return this as a Python string, even if it's just random
octet data garbage. Depends on what that data really represents, but it's a
common idiom, and modules like struct and array expect their data to be
strings. Note that Python strings may contain NUL bytes.

/Jorgen

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