"David M" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thanks but the C Struct describing the data doesn't match up with the > list on the module-struct page. > > this is the acct.h file [...]
Tooting my ctypes horn (sorry for that): [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/ctypes> locate acct.h /usr/include/linux/acct.h /usr/include/sys/acct.h [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/ctypes> python ctypes/wrap/h2xml.py sys/acct.h -o acct.xml creating xml output file ... running: gccxml /tmp/tmpSWogJs.cpp -fxml=acct.xml [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/ctypes> python ctypes/wrap/xml2py.py acct.xml -o acct.py [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/ctypes> python Python 2.4.1a0 (#1, Oct 23 2004, 15:48:15) [GCC 3.3.1 (SuSE Linux)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import acct >>> acct.acct <class 'acct.acct'> >>> acct.AFORK 1 >>> acct.ASU 2 >>> acct.acct.ac_comm <Field type=c_char_Array_17, ofs=36, size=17> >>> acct.acct.ac_utime <Field type=c_ushort, ofs=12, size=2> >>> from ctypes import sizeof >>> sizeof(acct.acct) 64 >>> acct.acct.ac_flag <Field type=c_char, ofs=0, size=1> >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/ctypes> But it won't help you to decode/encode the comp_t fields into floats. Note that the h2xml.py script requires gccxml. Thomas -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
