Philip Semanchuk wrote: > Hi all, > I can't figure out how to map a C variable of size_t via Python's > ctypes module. Let's say I have a C function like this: > > void populate_big_array(double *the_array, size_t element_count) {...} > > How would I pass parameter 2? A long (or ulong) will (probably) work > (on most platforms), but I like my code to be more robust than that. > Furthermore, this is scientific code and it's entirely possible that > someone will want to pass a huge array with more elements than can be > described by a 32-bit long.
from ctypes import c_size_t doesn't work for you? On my system, it's aliased to c_ulong, but I guess that's depending on the platfrom of course. Diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list