Having trouble using CTypes with a custom function

[Chris Mellon]

<please don't top post>

On 4 Oct 2006 11:35:11 -0700, tkondal at gmail.com <tkondal at gmail.com> wrote:
> Would you have any example of a wrapper for such data types?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Chris Mellon wrote:
> > On 4 Oct 2006 11:18:16 -0700, tkondal at gmail.com <tkondal at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Hi all.
> > >
> > > I just started looking at Python's ctypes lib and I am having trouble
> > > using it for a function.
> > >
> > > For starters, here's my Python code:
> > >
> > >
> > > from ctypes import*;
> > > myStringDLL= cdll.LoadLibrary("myStringDLL.dll");
> > >
> > > GetMyString = getattr(myStringDLL,
> > > "?GetMyString@@YA_NAAV?$basic_string at DU?$char_traits at D@std@@V?$allocator at D@2@@std@@@Z")
> > >
> > > strString =  create_string_buffer('\000' * 256);
> > > GetMyString.restype = c_int;
> > > GetMyString.argtypes = [c_char_p];
> > >
> > > bResult = GetMyString (strSerialNumber);
> > >
> > > print (bResult);
> > > print (strSerialNumber);
> > >
> > > #C++ Prototype of the function I want to call:
> > > #bool GetMyString (string& stringParam) ;
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > I do not have access to the source code of this function so don't ask
> > > me to try different things in C++.  This DLL is working fine.
> > >
> > > The problem that I have is that print (strSerialNumber) does not seem
> > > to print the correct string.  What I get is some garbage value of
> > > unprintable characters.  Am I using this the correct way?
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > This function is expecting a C++ std::string object, not a regular C
> > style string. You'll need a wrapper function, and one which uses the
> > same compiler and STL as the C++ source.
> >
> > > Thanks.
> > >
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> > >
>

in this case it'd be very simple:

bool WrapGetMyString(char * c) {
  return GetMyString(c)
}


(Note: This isn't unicode safe).

The C++ compiler will handle converting from the char * to the std::string.





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