[pypy-commit] pypy default: Issue #2625

[arigo]

Author: Armin Rigo <arigo at tunes.org>
Branch: 
Changeset: r92266:99fff483bea8
Date: 2017-08-27 09:10 +0200
http://bitbucket.org/pypy/pypy/changeset/99fff483bea8/

Log:	Issue #2625

	ctypes.cast("some-string", TP)

diff --git a/lib_pypy/_ctypes/pointer.py b/lib_pypy/_ctypes/pointer.py
--- a/lib_pypy/_ctypes/pointer.py
+++ b/lib_pypy/_ctypes/pointer.py
@@ -142,6 +142,10 @@
         ptr._buffer = tp._ffiarray(1, autofree=True)
         ptr._buffer[0] = obj._buffer
         result = ptr
+    elif isinstance(obj, bytes):
+        result = tp()
+        result._buffer[0] = buffer(obj)._pypy_raw_address()
+        return result
     elif not (isinstance(obj, _CData) and type(obj)._is_pointer_like()):
         raise TypeError("cast() argument 1 must be a pointer, not %s"
                         % (type(obj),))