On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 5:07 AM, Martin Phillips <martinphill...@ladybridge.com> wrote: > I am writing a Python wrapper to go around a C library. I have encountered a > problem that I have been unable to resolve with > countless web searches. > > > > Several functions in the C library return pointers to dynamically allocated > w_char null terminated strings. I need to copy the > string to a Python variable and call an existing library function that will > free the dynamically allocate memory. > > > > My test code for this is > > > > def Test(fno, item): > > func = mylib. MyFunc > > func.restype = ct.c_void_p > > s = func(fno, item) > > result = s > > mylib.free(s) > > return result > > > > The problem is with the line that sets the result variable. I need this to > make a copy of the dynamically allocated string, not the > pointer to it.
Does ctypes.wstring_at(s) do what you want? -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
