ctypes pointer from offset into array?

[Carl Banks]

Is there a way to get the pointer to an array offset in ctypes.
Example, say I define an array like so:

xfer = (c_char*bufsize)()

How would I get a pointer to then nth byte (equivalient of &xfer[n])?
I guess I would have expected xfer+n to work, but it doesn't.

Carl Banks

[sturlamolden]

See:
http://bugs.python.org/issue6259

For now, we can still work with char* by casting them to an integer:

>>> from ctypes import *

>>> bufsize = 1024
>>> xfer = (c_char*bufsize)()

# cast to pointer

>>> ptr = cast(xfer, POINTER(c_char))

# obtain address

>>> addressof(xfer)
36279232
>>> addressof(ptr)
45151576
>>> addressof(ptr.contents)
36279232

# add offset to pointer

>>> cast(addressof(ptr.contents)+10,POINTER(c_char))
<ctypes.LP_c_char object at 0x02B0F580>

>>> cast(addressof(xfer)+10,POINTER(c_char))
<ctypes.LP_c_char object at 0x02B0FDA0>

# byref also takes an offset

>>> byref(xfer,0)
<cparam 'P' (022993C0)>

>>> byref(xfer,10)
<cparam 'P' (022993CA)>

[sturlamolden]

On 5 Des, 10:13, Carl Banks <pavlovevide...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Is there a way to get the pointer to an array offset in ctypes.

Could also mention that Cython has pointer arithmetics. Cython can be
easier to use than ctypes, but is not a standard module.