Mike, Thanks for your response - I was puzzled by one part of it though...
On 21/01/2013 15:14, Mike C. Fletcher wrote:
That's because you've just discarded the object you created
I (mis?)understood from the ctypes documentation that '>>> initResult = c_short(0)' would result in the creation of a ctypes 'short' called initResult and that this object would be mutable. On that basis, I expected the following statement '>>> initResult = initScanLib( ... )' would assign the result of the call to initResult.
So, I can understand that I am not using the correct approach but I don't understand how I discarded the object I created. Can you clarify please?
Steve -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list