I am using Python Ctypes to access some C library.
One of the functions I connected to, returns const *double, which is actually an array of doubles.
When I get the result in Python, how can I convert this array to a python list?
The signature of the C function:
const double *getWeights();
Let's assume that it returns an array that contains 0.13 and 0.12.
I want to get a python List: [0.13, 0.12]
I succeeded solving it using pointers
The solution:
Define the function return type as POINTER(double_c) (as of course, arrays are actually pointers in C):
getWeights_function_handler.restype = POINTER(double_c)
When the function returns, you can use the [] operator to access the array-pointer, like in C:
weights = getWeights_function_handler()
list = [weights[i] for i in xrange(ARRAY_SIZE_I_KNOW_IN_ADVANCE)]
