Roman Yakovenko <roman.yakove...@gmail.com> writes: > On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 1:55 AM, Nikolaus Rath <nikol...@rath.org> wrote: >> I think POINTER(c_char) should indeed be the default because it is the >> safer choice. > > Unfortunately, I don't agree with you. It is a safer choice - right, > but it should not be the default.
Don't worry, I don't care what the default is as long as I can change it :-). >> Maybe a parameter a new keyword parameter in the ctypes_module_builder_t >> constructor would be a good way to customize this. >> >> On the other hand, the only situation were the user can actually notice >> this change would be in a Python callback function that's called from C, >> because it will receive a ctypes object rather than a Python string. But >> a string can still easily be obtained with string_at (while the reverse >> is not possible). So maybe it is also possible to always generate >> POINTER(c_char) without the option to change this to c_char_p. > > I added new functionality, which allows to generate POINTER( c_char ) > instead of c_char_p. Works like a charm, thanks a lot! Best, -Nikolaus -- »Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a Banana.« PGP fingerprint: 5B93 61F8 4EA2 E279 ABF6 02CF A9AD B7F8 AE4E 425C _______________________________________________ Cplusplus-sig mailing list Cplusplus-sig@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/cplusplus-sig
