ctypes issues involving a pointer to an array of strings
MRAB
python at mrabarnett.plus.com
Tue Oct 20 14:08:50 EDT 2009
Nathaniel Hayes wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 12:12 PM, MRAB <python at mrabarnett.plus.com
> <mailto:python at mrabarnett.plus.com>> wrote:
>
> The digits in that pointer value look suspiciously like the character
> codes of a string rather than an actual address:
>
> >>> "\x42\x71\x61\x44"
> 'BqaD'
>
> It looks like the first 4 characters of a string starting 'DaqB' are
> being used as a string pointer on a little-endian platform.
>
>
> I am really at a loss here, so any insight at all would be
> great. Something odd though, is that when I pass just c_char_p
> instead of an array of c_char_p, I receive the one device I have
> installed on this computer, and it works great. However, when I
> make an array of just one item, I get these odd errors.
>
> Well, the name of the device is DaqBoard2K, so thats where the DaqB is
> coming from. That means that the function worked, but I can seem to get
> the information in a usable format. I'm not well versed in C or
> anything low level like that, so not really sure what is going behind
> the scenes. I have seen (c_char_p*4)() would make an iterable ctypes
> array of 4 c_char_p variables, but it seems like the address to the
> string has been overwritten by the string itself?
>
What does the documentation of the C API actually say? What does the
parameter list of the C function look like?
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