[Ironpython-users] ctypes on IronPython - differences with CPython

[Vernon Cole]

One argument you can make for merging your changes back into trunk is that
they will have to fix the unicode issues for Python 3 anyway, so you have
already done that part of the work for them.


On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 5:46 PM, Michael van der Kolff <
mvanderkolff at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yep, that works!  Paramiko's agent handling has all kinds of
> string==bytestring assumptions, so I'll need to write some patches for
> that.  My repo for that work: https://github.com/mvdk/paramiko.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Michael
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 11:08 AM, Jeff Hardy <jdhardy at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> No, that should work. Can you try it with FindWindowW? Perhaps there's
>> a unicode issue (IronPython strings are unicode). One other thing to
>> try would be FindWindowA(b'Pageant', b'Pageant') to force it to use
>> byte strings.
>>
>> - Jeff
>>
>> On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 3:55 PM, Michael van der Kolff
>> <mvanderkolff at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > In paramiko, we try to find a Pageant window using either the win32all
>> > module or the ctypes module.
>> >
>> > win32all is not implemented on IronPython, which is to be expected, but
>> > ctypes is.  However, FindWindowA doesn't do what we expect:
>> > On CPython:
>> >>>> import ctypes
>> >>>> ctypes.windll.user32.FindWindowA('Pageant','Pageant')
>> > 131376
>> >
>> > On IronPython:
>> >>>> import ctypes
>> >>>> ctypes.windll.user32.FindWindowA('Pageant','Pageant')
>> > 0
>> >
>> > Am I doing something that isn't expected to work?
>> >
>> > Cheers,
>> >
>> >
>> > Michael van der Kolff
>> >
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