On Oct 23, 2008, at 2:13 AM, Thomas Heller wrote:
Philip Semanchuk schrieb:
I'm writing a Python extension in C that wraps a function which takes
a void * as a parameter. (The function is shmat() which attaches a
chunk of shared memory to the process at the address supplied by the
caller.) I would like to expose this function to Python, but I don't
know how to define the interface.
Specifically, when calling PyArg_ParseTuple(), what letter should I
use to represent the pointer in the format string? The best idea I
can
come up with is to use a long and then cast it to a void *, but
assuming that a long is big enough to store a void * is a shaky
assumption. I could use a long long (technically still risky, but
practically probably OK) but I'm not sure how widespread long longs
are.
I suggest "O!" and a converter function calling PyLong_AsVoidPtr().
Thomas, this sounds perfect, thank you.
bye
Philip
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