Viewing the byte representation of a struct

[Lawrence Moore]

Hi,

I'd like some way to view the underlying byte representation of a struct (I'd like to send the struct through a socket), but I can't seem to find a way to do that.  Any suggestions? 

Thanks. 

[Armin Rigo]

Hi Lawrence,

If p is a cdata object of type 'struct foo *', then you can cast it to
a 'char *' (like you would do in C). But even better is
'ffi.buffer(p)', which returns a Python buffer. You can pass it
directly to socket.send() for example, or use 'ffi.buffer(p)[:]' to
get the data as a raw string.


A bientôt,

Armin.

[Lawrence Moore]

thanks so much!