From: Amaury Forgeot d'Arc <report@bugs.python.org>
To: breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk
Sent: Tue, 21 September, 2010 18:56:51
Subject: [issue1962] ctypes feature request: Automatic type conversion of input arguments to C functions
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc <
amauryfa@gmail.com> added the comment:
I don't think this should happen by default.
but what the user wants is already possible, by using the from_param() method. For example, the AutoStrParam type converts everything to a string (and a char*):
from ctypes import *
class AutoStrParam(c_char_p):
@classmethod
def from_param(cls, value):
return str(value)
strlen = cdll.LoadLibrary('msvcrt').strlen
strlen.argtypes = [AutoStrParam]
print strlen(None) # "None" -> 4
print strlen(type) # "<type 'type'>" -> 13
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nosy: +amaury.forgeotdarc
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