How to pass FILE *

Stefan Behnel stefan_ml at behnel.de
Sat Sep 29 05:19:51 EDT 2012


xDog Walker, 29.09.2012 10:45:
> On Friday 2012 September 28 21:27, you wrote:
>> A tiny bit of googling suggests the following approach:
>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3794309/python-ctypes-python-file-object
>> -c-file/3794401#3794401
> 
> Thanks for your response. 
> 
> My "tiny bit of Googling" brought no joy but I did try successfully the same 
> method suggested by Alex Martelli: use libc's fdopen to get a FILE * for 
> ctypes. I would have posted a reply to my own post but it didn't show up.

Given your second post on stackoverflow, you may also consider switching
from ctypes to Cython. It makes these things a bit more straight forward.

Stefan





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