python ioctl

[Nitish Sharma]

Hi PyPpl,
For my current project I have a kernel device driver and a user-space
application. This user-space application is already provided to me, and
written in python. I have to extend this application with some addition
features, which involves communicating with kernel device driver through
ioctl() interface.
I am fairly new with Python and not able to grok how to provide "op" in
ioctl syntax - fcntl.ioctl (fd, op[, arg[, mutate_flag]]). Operations
supported by device driver, through ioctl, are of the form: IOCTL_SET_MSG
 _IOR(MAGIC_NUMBER, 0, char*).
It'd be great if some help can be provided about how to "encode" these
operations in python to implement the desired functionality.

Regards
Nitish
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