"S. Doron" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
Hello, I'm new to this list. What I'd like to do is add support for
pointers
to an old version of python (2.2) in an existing application (a
game).
What do you mean by "add support for pointers"?
Pointers are a very low level memory specific thing in C.
In Pascal they are a much higher level logical concept.
In Python every variable is a reference to a value, a pointer if you
like.
So what kind of pointer do you want and why?
What do you intend to do with these pointers?
I found the ctypes module which is supposed to add
this capability to python.
Not exactly. As the name suggests ctypes allows Python
to access code written in C. On Windows that usually means
code stored in a DLL. It does not add any new pointer
capability to Python itself.
Alternatively, if it's possible (or easier) to just replace the
preexisting
version of python with 2.5 by messing around with the dll's somehow,
instructions on how to do so would be welcome.
Again, I don't know what replacing 2.2 with 2.5 would give you
that you need?
highschool programming, and online python tutorials), but have
little
experience in interfacing with windows, dlls, files, etc. In case
you're
wondering what I need the pointers for, it's for accessing
lower-level
functions from the game's console/script files, that aren't
otherwise
available (I've used dir() to get a list of object methods).
OK, that probably does need ctypes which wuill let you access the
functions and convert from the C types to the more usual Python types.
There are some ctypes tutorials and examples around which should help.
Alan G.
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