Passing FILE * types using ctypes

[Robert Kern]

On 2010-03-10 15:57 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> In message<7vbrveFegeU1 at mid.individual.net>, Gregory Ewing wrote:
>
>> If you need the same FILE * that Python is using, you
>> may need to use ctypes to extract it out of the file
>> object.
>
> Why would Python be using a FILE *?

In Python 2.x, Python's file objects use a stdio FILE* pointer underneath. The 
I/O subsystem was rewritten in Python 3.x to use only file descriptors.

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Robert Kern

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