Nikolaus Rath <nikol...@rath.org> added the comment: I don't want to judge if the best way to represent binary data in C is a void* or char*, but there is a lot of C code out there that uses char*, and if we want to interface with such a library we need to use POINTER(c_char).
Note that my docpatch doesn't say anything about using void_p or not: "For a general *character* pointer that may point to binary data, POINTER(c_char) must be used". This refers only to char*, so if the C code uses void* instead, we can of course also use c_void_p on the Python side. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue7569> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
