Am 19.11.2013 17:58, schrieb Mark Summerfield:
Hi,
I am using ctypes to access a function in a DLL using Python 3.3
32-bit on Windows 7 64-bit:
dplGetPageText = dpl.DPLGetPageText dplGetPageText.argtypes =
(ctypes.c_int, ctypes.c_int) dplGetPageText.restype =
ctypes.c_wchar_p
Python returns this as a str with the raw bytes already decoded.
Unfortunately, when the returned text contains some special
characters (e.g. © or fi) it is not encoded correctly. This may be a
problem with Windows or with ctypes or with the library I'm using; or
of course, it could be my own mistake.
To find out, I'd like to change the restype to give me the raw bytes
so that I can view them and if necessary decode them myself.
Can anyone tell me how to change the restype to get the bytes?
ctypes on Python 2.7 has the set_conversion_mode(coding, errors)
which could be used to change the way c_wchar_p is converted
from/to Python strings.
Unfortunately it seems to be gone in Python 3.3.
However, you can set restype to POINTER(c_char) and then
index the result:
result = dplGetPageText(...)
print(result[0], result[1], result[2])
Thomas
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