I am attempting to cast a C style const char[] string pointer (returned from a DLL) into a Python compatible string type. but when Python27 executes:
import ctypes
charPtr = ctypes.cast( "HiThere", ctypes.c_char_p )
print( "charPtr = ", charPtr )
we get: charPtr = c_char_p('HiThere')
perhaps something is not to be evaluating properly.
My questions are:
how should one cast this charPtr back into a Python compatible, print-able string?
is the cast operation just mentioned doing what it should be doing?
解决方案
ctypes.cast() is used to convert one ctype instance to another ctype datatype.
You don't need it To convert it to python string.
Just use ".value" to get it in python string.
>>> s = "Hello, World"
>>> c_s = c_char_p(s)
>>> print c_s
c_char_p('Hello, World')
>>> print c_s.value
Hello, World
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