I'm sorry, but I generally have a hard time reading the current ctypes docs... If I have a C function that takes a const char * pointer, and I know it will neither modify the passed in string, nor keep a reference to it beyond the function call, it really makes sense to pass in a pointer directly to the bytes of a python string. Can ctypes can do this or is it just plain unsupported? Do I really have to create_string_buffer and copy my string into it? Continue reading...
