Ryan Coyner rcoy...@gmail.com added the comment:
You don't want to do c_size_t = c_void_p because that will prevent type
checking. We want c_size_t to be integers; setting it to c_void_p will accept
other values. The lines that define c_size_t are doing a sizeof check to
determine how many
Changes by Galen Clark Haynes gchay...@gmail.com:
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Thomas Heller thel...@ctypes.org added the comment:
Find where c_size_t is defined: in Lib/ctypes/__init__.py
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Thomas Heller thel...@ctypes.org added the comment:
Would you like to work on a patch?
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Nikolaus Rath nikol...@rath.org added the comment:
I can give it a shot if you give me a rough idea where I have to make
the appropriate changes.
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New submission from Nikolaus Rath nikol...@rath.org:
ctypes currently has a datatype c_size_t which corresponds to size_t in
C, but there is no datatype for the C ssize_t.
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assignee: theller
components: ctypes
messages: 91713
nosy: Nikratio, theller
severity: normal
status: open
