HallÃchen! I have to generate a lot of data types (for ctypes by the way). An example is
ViUInt32 = u_long ViPUInt32 = POINTER(ViUInt32) ViAUInt32 = ViPUInt32 Therefore, I defined functions that should make my life easier: def generate_type_dublett(visa_type, ctypes_type): visa_type_name = visa_type.__name__ exec visa_type_name + "=" + ctypes_type.__name__ exec "ViP" + visa_type_name[2:] + "=POINTER(" + visa_type_name + ")" def generate_type_triplett(visa_type, ctypes_type): generate_type_dublett(visa_type, ctypes_type) visa_type_name = visa_type.__name__ exec "ViA" + visa_type_name[2:] + "=" + "ViP" + visa_type_name[2:] generate_type_triplett(ViUInt32, c_ulong) However, this doesn't work, probably because the defined type exist only locally within the function. What is a better (and working) method for this task? Thank you! TschÃ, Torsten. -- Torsten Bronger, aquisgrana, europa vetus -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list