Re: [ctypes-users] Null terminators..

[Thomas H. <th...@py...>]

"John Sutherland" <ga...@ga...> writes:

> A new question..
>
> In that struct that was dynamicly generated, I have character strings that
> are -not- null terminated (based on some 1985 programming, they wanted to
> save memory.. Hey, it still works :) )..
>
> More of less, the structure looks like this:
>
> struct
> {
>   char field1[2];
>   char field2[4];
> }
>
> So if I put "11" into field1 and "2222" into field2, I should get
> something in memory like:
>
> "112222"
>
> ctypes seems to read this ok.. But when I try to field1 = "JS", it tells
> me that its too long.. I assume that it expects a null terminator.. Is
> there any way to handle this type of situation?

It doesn't seem so, at the moment. It is currently discussed in other
threads.

Thomas