Hi,
I have a question about ctypes. I am trying to call a C function but I am not
able to construct the arguments in ctypes. I need to construct two pointers.
Each is a pointer to an array of pointers to character values. I did it like
this (I tried numerous ways; this seemed the cleanest way):
>>> MAXSIZE = 10
>>> valueArrayPtr = ctypes.POINTER(ctypes.c_char_p) * MAXSIZE
>>> valueArrayPtr
<class '__main__.LP_c_char_p_Array_10'>
>>> valueArrayPtrPtr = ctypes.POINTER(valueArrayPtr)
>>> valueArrayPtrPtr
<class '__main__.LP_LP_c_char_p_Array_10'>
>>>
But this yields an error: <type 'exceptions.TypeError'>: Don't know how to
convert parameter ..
Any idea what I am doing wrong? Below is more complete code.
And once it works, can I simply use the ctypes as an iterable to retrieve the
values?
Thanks in advance!
Albert-Jan
import ctypes
def getValueLabels(self, varName):
MAXSIZE = 10
# Pointer to array of pointers to values
valueArrayPtr = ctypes.POINTER(ctypes.c_char_p) * MAXSIZE
valueArrayPtrPtr = ctypes.POINTER(valueArrayPtr)
# Pointer to array of pointers to labels
labelArrayPtr = ctypes.POINTER(ctypes.c_char_p) * MAXSIZE
labelArrayPtrPtr = ctypes.POINTER(labelArrayPtr)
# Pointer to number of values or labels
numLabels = ctypes.c_int()
numLabelsPtr = ctypes.byref(numLabels)
# call C function with the following prototype:
# int GetValueLabels(int handle, const char *varName, char ***values, char
***labels, int *numLabels)
retcode = self.theLib.GetValueLabels(self.fh, varName, valueArrayPtrPtr,
labelArrayPtrPtr, numLabelsPtr)
# yields ArgumentError: argument 3: <type 'exceptions.TypeError'>: Don't
know how to convert parameter 3
Description
This function gets the set of labeled values and associated labels for a short
string
variable. The number of values is returned as *numLabels. Values are stored
into an
array of *numLabels pointers, each pointing to a char string containing a
nullterminated
value, and *values is set to point to the first element of the array. Each value
string is as long as the variable. The corresponding labels are structured as
an array of
*numLabels pointers, each pointing to a char string containing a
null-terminated label,
and *labels is set to point to the first element of the array.
Parameter Description
handle Handle to the data file
varName Variable name
values Pointer to array of pointers to values
labels Pointer to array of pointers to labels
numLabels Pointer to number of values or labels
Cheers!!
Albert-Jan
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