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contributing to Python by Raymond Hettinger
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From: Amaury Forgeot d'Arc <report@bugs.python.org>
To: breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk
Sent: Tue, 21 September, 2010 18:56:51
Subject: [issue1962] ctypes feature request: Automatic type conversion of input 
arguments to C functions
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc <amauryfa@gmail.com> added the comment:
I don't think this should happen by default.
but what the user wants is already possible, by using the from_param() method. 
For example, the AutoStrParam type converts everything to a string (and a 
char*):
from ctypes import *
class AutoStrParam(c_char_p):
 @classmethod
 def from_param(cls, value):
 return str(value)
strlen = cdll.LoadLibrary('msvcrt').strlen
strlen.argtypes = [AutoStrParam]
print strlen(None) # "None" -> 4
print strlen(type) # "<type 'type'>" -> 13
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