Python Programming On Win32

C Strings and Passing by Reference

WinDLL also includes a class cstring that makes it easy to pass string or character buffer arguments back and forth. This class should be initialized with a Python string (which may be empty), and an optional length. Internally, cString maintains a buffer with a null-terminated string and the address of the buffer it passes to the DLL when used as an argument. To test this, the DLL exports a function StringRepeat that repeats a string a number of times:

>>> inBuf = cstring('spam')               # make a buffer holding a c string
>>> outBuf = cstring('',50)               # make another big enough for output
>>> mod1.StringRepeat(inBuf, outBuf, 10)  # returns the length of out string
40
>>> outBuf
'spamspamspamspamspamspamspamspamspamspam'

Rather than go any further, you can refer to the documentation and examples in the CallDLL and DynWin packages.