python access violation_Python: WindowsError: exception: access violation reading 0x00000000

This short function is simply getting the available free space of a storage device, however I am getting the above error when running the code.

The function is: def disk_space1(drive): freespace = ctypes.c_ulonglong() calcspace = ctypes.windll.kernel32.GetDiskFreeSpaceExA calcspace(drive, ctypes.byref(freespace)) disk_size = freespace.value return disk_size

This function worked perfectly until today when it has stopped working for no reason, I haven't changed anything. What's baffling me the most is that the function works properly, if I print out the value of 'freespace' once running it, it has gone and found the correct value, but still gives the error.

What could have caused this issue?