Copying void * string to

[Ian Kelly]

On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 5:07 AM, Martin Phillips
<martinphillips at ladybridge.com> wrote:
> I am writing a Python wrapper to go around a C library. I have encountered a problem that I have been unable to resolve with
> countless web searches.
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> Several functions in the C library return pointers to dynamically allocated w_char null terminated strings. I need to copy the
> string to a Python variable and call an existing library function that will free the dynamically allocate memory.
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> My test code for this is
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> def Test(fno, item):
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>     func = mylib. MyFunc
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>     func.restype = ct.c_void_p
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>     s = func(fno, item)
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>     result = s
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>     mylib.free(s)
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>     return result
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> The problem is with the line that sets the result variable. I need this to make a copy of the dynamically allocated string, not the
> pointer to it.

Does ctypes.wstring_at(s) do what you want?