Use size_t http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_data_types#Size_and_pointer_difference_types
On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 2:20 PM, Evan Driscoll <edrisc...@wisc.edu> wrote: > Might as well ask another question of the list. > > I've written a ctypes-based Python wrapper around the 'readdir' > function. (I want access to the dt_type field of the result, without > calling stat().) > > However, it feels very... fragile. What happens on a different *nix > which uses a different size of integers? Is Linux even consistent > between 32 and 64 bits? (That's a rhetorical question.) What happens on > a different *nix with the fields in a different order, or without a > dt_type field? > > It somehow feels wrong that you get way less help with this than you > would get even from C. Is that just how it is with ctypes? Or is there > some way around it? I'm sort of tempted to write a C module whose sole > purpose is to wrap readdir... > > Evan > > > > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
