icotl and Pointers

[Cliff Wells]

On Fri, 05 Apr 2002 17:06:33 -0500
Umar Saif wrote:

> Hi,
> 	I am trying to write a piece of python code to control a sound device
(with 
> an oss driver).
>  The ioctls for the sound driver take in a pointer to an integer for the 
> argument -- I was wondering whether it is possible to do this in python ?
Or 
> writing a native library is the only way around this ?

This is from a fix sent to me for uspp by its author, Isaac Barona:

import struct
b = fcntl.ioctl(self.__handle, TERMIOS.TIOCINQ, struct.pack('i', 0))
n = struct.unpack('i', b)[0]

This is ugly but it works.

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