kai zhu <kaizhu...@gmail.com> added the comment: i just found this bug independently, but yes its a bug, which i hope gets fixed for sake of extension community:
// test.c beg char s[4] = "ab\xff"; char *foo() { return s; } // test.c end $ gcc -fPIC -g -c -Wall test.c $ gcc -shared test.o -o test.so $ python3.1 -c "import ctypes; lib = ctypes.cdll.LoadLibrary('./test.so'); lib.foo.restype = ctypes.c_char_p; lib.foo()" Traceback (most recent call last): File "<string>", line 1, in <module> UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0xff in position 2: unexpected code byte ---------- nosy: +kaizhu _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue6239> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com