Duncan Booth skrev: > "Sheldon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I am new to this and copied this code from a colleague. So, it > > corrupts the pointer. How do I do this properly? > > > Here is at least part of your problem: > > msgop = PyList_GetItem(work.msgobj, i); > work.msg_scenes[i] = PyString_AsString(msgop); > ppsop = PyList_GetItem(work.ppsobj, i); > work.pps_scenes[i] = PyString_AsString(ppsop); > ... > free(work.pps_scenes[i]); > free(work.msg_scenes[i]); > > You initialised msg_scenes and pps_scenes with a malloc'ed block but you > then just overwrote the pointer with the result of PyString_AsString. You > don't own the memory for the string returned from PyString_AsString, so > freeing it will cause a corruption. You should copy the string data into > the malloc'ed block (with appropriate length checks).
Do you mean with: PyString_FromStringAndSize() and PyString_Size(PyObject *string) /S -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
