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Oct 08, 2007

What I learned from Python that makes me a better programmer when I use C

Here is my response to this call for posts on the raganwald blog. A response from Ryan Ginstrom can be found here

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Oct 02, 2007

Assigning a python list to a C char ** using SWIG

Using a SWIG-generated interface it's straightforward to assign variables of type char * from a Python script to a C variable: the char * datatype is assumed to be a NULL terminated ASCII string and mapped accordingly. The situation is a little different for variables of type char **, commonly used for arrays of pointers to strings.

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