On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 12:40 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 12:20 PM, Fredrik Lundh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >>> I've used CTYPES module to access a function from a dll. This function >>> provides me the version of the dll. This information is accessible to >>> me as an array of 4 long inetegers. information as : >>> 2, 1, 5, 0 >>> >>> I want to display these elements concatenated as "v2.1.5.0". This >>> string ( I'm thinking of writing the above 4 array elements to a >>> string) is to be displayed as label in a GUI ( the GUI used is Tk) >>> >>> Please suggest how can I write these elements to a string to get me >>> the desired results as "v2.1.5.0". And, is writing to a string is >>> right way? >> >> any special reason why you're not reading replies to your previous post? >> >> here's what I wrote last time. >> >> expecting that Python/ctypes should be able to figure out that you >> want an array of 4 integers printed as a dot-separated string is a >> bit optimistic, perhaps. but nothing that a little explicit string >> formatting cannot fix: >> >>>>> from ctypes import * >>>>> versionArr = c_long * 4 >>>>> version = versionArr(1, 2, 3, 4) >>>>> "%d.%d.%d.%d" % tuple(version) >> '1.2.3.4' >> >> inserting a "v" in the format string gives you the required result: >> >>>>> "v%d.%d.%d.%d" % tuple(version) >> 'v1.2.3.4' >> >> </F> >> >> -- >> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list >> > Fredrik, > My apology for any confusion created. > I read all the replies. In fact I'm thankful to you all guys who are > responding so quickly to all questions. > > I also add the letter 'v' same as you suggested. However, I'm looking > to store this into some variable ( that variable could be be a string, > tuple or anything, Im not sure which is the suited one) so that I can > access it in some other module that will then display this version > information in a Label Widet in GUI. > > So, what is the best way to store 'v1.2.3.4' in a variable? And, what > type of variable is most suited (so as able to be used in other module > probably, as string there)? > > Thanks, > Rajat >
Googled and found : s = "v%d.%d.%d.%d" % tuple(version) print s it's working. Result is : v1.2.3.4 Thanks, Rajat -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
