Question: Why not just use Python to read the file? f=open(filename, 'rb') fcontents=f.read()
If you need to manipulate what is in fcontents you can use struct module and/or slicing. Larry Bates Lil wrote: > Hi Everyone! I've been trying to figure out this weird bug in my > program. I have a python program that calls a C function that reads in > a binary file into a buffer. In the C program, buffer is allocated by > calling malloc. The C program runs perfectly fine but when I use python > to call the C function, it core dumps at malloc. > I've tried multiple binary files with different sizes and the result > is: > > if file size is < 20 bytes , works fine > if file size is > 20 bytes, it hangs or core dumps. > > Please help!! > Lil > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
