struct pointing to another struct?

[inhahe]

On Aug 13, 4:07 pm, Peter Otten <__pete... at web.de> wrote:
> inhahe wrote:
> > say i have this definition:
>
> >    1 typedef struct SDL_Surface {
> >    2     Uint32 flags;                           /* Read-only */
> >    3     SDL_PixelFormat *format;                /* Read-only */
> >    4     int w, h;                               /* Read-only */
> >    5     Uint16 pitch;                           /* Read-only */
> >    6     void *pixels;                           /* Read-write */
> >    7     SDL_Rect clip_rect;                     /* Read-only */
> >    8     int refcount;                           /* Read-mostly */
> >    9
> >   10   /* This structure also contains private fields not shown here
> > */
> >   11 } SDL_Surface;
>
> > notice two pointers, format and pixels.
> > say format has this definition.
>
> >    1 typedef struct {
> >    2   SDL_Palette *palette;
> >    3   Uint8  BitsPerPixel;
> >    4   Uint8  BytesPerPixel;
> >    5   Uint8  Rloss, Gloss, Bloss, Aloss;
> >    6   Uint8  Rshift, Gshift, Bshift, Ashift;
> >    7   Uint32 Rmask, Gmask, Bmask, Amask;
> >    8   Uint32 colorkey;
> >    9   Uint8  alpha;
> >   10 } SDL_PixelFormat;
>
> > so say i want to create a mock sdl handle and pass it to some library
> > function that requires an sdl handle. (would it even work? would i
> > need to use an SDL_SWSURFACE?)
>
> > so i make the pixelformat data using struct.pack, and make the surface
> > data using struct.pack, but how do i link the surface data to the
> > pixelformat data?  if i just use id() it'll give me the memory address
> > of the "box" for the string and not the string data itself.  thanks.
>
> I think you are looking at the wrong module; you need ctypes, not struct.
>
> http://docs.python.org/library/ctypes.html
>
> Peter

can you (or anybody) tell me how to link one c struct to another using
ctypes? Thx