How about my other questions? Pass as a pointer (like ctypes would do)?
Convert that pointer back? And I don't seem to be able to get the slices
(":") to work with byte arrays.
Thanks for the help getting the byte arrays started though. I am able to
take the output from reading a file and send it right to the array
constructor:
import clr
from System import Array, Byte
with open("file.txt", 'rb') as f: input = f.read()
a = Array[Byte](input)
One problem though is that equality doesn't work (a==input is False). But
maybe this is because one is a list of (unsigned) bytes and one is a list
of (signed) characters. a[0] and input[0] display differently.
Jeff
On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 2:07 PM, Barton <bar...@bcdesignswell.com> wrote:
> Definitely more useful:
> >>> import clr
> >>> from System import Array, Byte
> >>> g = (0 for i in range(10))
> >>> a = Array[Byte](list(i for i in g))
>
> >>> a[5]
> 0
>
> On 01/04/2013 06:33 PM, Jeffrey Bush wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have a library in C for compression. I made Python script for testing
> it, called using ctypes.
>
> Now, I am working on a .NET library for something very similar and would
> like to test it in the same way. However, I am getting lost in how to do
> some of the things with your library.
>
> The function I need to call looks like:
>
> public static long Compress(Memory input, Memory output)
>
> The Memory class is a wrapper around either managed byte arrays, void*
> (for efficiency), or memory mapped files. This allows a unified system for
> accessing general chunks of memory regardless if they are managed, native,
> or on the filesystem. They are created through static functions:
>
> public static Memory From(MemoryStream s, bool all = true)public static
> Memory From(byte[] b, bool readOnly = false)public static Memory From(byte[]
> b, long offset, long size, bool readOnly = false)public unsafe static Memory
> From(UnmanagedMemoryStream s, bool all = true)public unsafe static Memory
> From(void* b, long size, bool readOnly = false)public unsafe static Memory
> From(IntPtr b, long size, bool readOnly = false)public static Memory
> FromFile(string file, bool readOnly = false)public static Memory OfSize(long
> size)
>
> The only ones I can easily use are the last two (OfSize and FromFile). I
> have not yet figured out how to call the other ones properly. I don't seem
> to be able to allocate byte arrays with Array[Byte](10), it complains that
> 10 cannot be converted to System.Byte[] so it seems that it believes I am
> casting instead of creating a new array. No overloads seem to exist.
>
> So now here are my questions and the ctypes answer:
>
> - How do I construct a byte array? (ctypes.create_string_buffer)
> - How do I take a Python list/array and pass it as a pointer? (ctypes
> has this conversion happen automatically)
> - How do I turn a byte array into a useful Python list/array? As-is I
> can't use the Python-style indexers (except negative numbers). (The ctypes
> buffer works directly as a list, but also supports ".raw" and ".value")
> - How do I convert a pointer into a useful Python list/array? (ctypes
> casting allows this to work)
>
> Last point, although this is probably a limitation of .NET, but just to
> make sure. The default argument values can't be used, but it is possible
> that this isn't even in the assembly information and only works for source
> in the same module.
>
> Thanks,
> Jeff
>
>
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