Marcus Wanner wrote: > On 8/3/2009 3:45 AM, Diez B. Roggisch wrote: >> But you can cast the resulting pointer to an array of larger size, and >> there you are. > > Ah, that makes sense. I had forgotten about ctypes.cast(). You *can* shoot yourself in the foot with Python, you just have to aim much more carefully than you do with C/C++. -tkc