David Primmer wrote:
>I am trying to write a unit test for a function that accepts a buffer
> object. As far as I can tell, buffer's cannot be directly represented
> in code. How do I create the object for the test? (The buffer object comes
> through ADSI in an Active Directory query of the user GUID property).
> If I print the GUID property, it prints a Unicode encoded string of the
> byte stream: u'8108fd1ac12c0d42924355c8d9987f19'. I don't believe this
> is the 'native' representation. The function I'm trying to test
> translates it to MS's hex format: '{38303138-6466-6131-6331-326330643432}'
>
A guid buffer returned from an ADSI query can be translated into a PyIID
object using pywintypes.IID(bufferobject, True). The second parameter
to IID() indicates that the input shoud be treated as raw bytes.
Roger
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