I have a function exposed through ctypes that returns a c_char_p. Since I need to deallocate that c_char_p, it's inconvenient that ctypes copies the c_char_p into a string instead of giving me the raw pointer. I believe this will cause a memory leak, unless ctypes is smart enough to free the string itself after the copy... which I doubt.
Is there some way to tell ctypes to return an actual c_char_p, or is my best bet to return a c_void_p and cast to c_char_p when I'm reading to convert to a string? Thanks Brendan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
