C Extension - return an array of longs or pointer?

[Java and Swing]

Hi,
   I have been posting about writing a C extension for Python...so far,
so good.  At least for the "simple" functions that I need to wrap.

Ok, my c function looks like...

MY_NUM *doNumberStuff(const char *in, const char *x) { ... }

MY_NUM is defined as, typedef unsigned long MY_NUM;  (not sure if that
matters, or can i just create a wrapper which handles longs?)

anyhow..for my wrapper I have this..

static PyObject *wrap_doNumberStuff(PyObject *self, PyObject args) {
    char *in = 0;
    char *x = 0;
    long *result = 0;
    int ok = PyArg_ParseTuple(args, "ss", &in, &x);
    if (!ok) return 0;

    result = doNumberStuff(in, x);

    return Py_BuildValue("l", result);
}

...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?

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

Thanks!!