如何从python传递char指针到C ++ API?

时间:2016-04-26 11:49:30

标签: python c++ nullpointerexception ctypes tesseract

我试图从我的python代码中调用以下C ++方法:

TESS_API TessResultRenderer* TESS_CALL TessTextRendererCreate(const char* outputbase)
{
    return new TessTextRenderer(outputbase);
}

我在如何将指针传递给方法方面遇到了困难:

遵循正确的方法吗?

textRenderer = self.tesseract.TessTextRendererCreate(ctypes.c_char)

或者我应该这样做:

outputbase = ctypes.c_char * 512
textRenderer = self.tesseract.TessTextRendererCreate(ctypes.pointer(outputbase))

上面的操作给出了错误:

TypeError: _type_ must have storage info

1 个答案:

答案 0 :(得分:3)

你应该传递一个字符串。

例如:

self.tesseract.TessTextRendererCreate('/path/to/output/file/without/extension')

这是一个带有模拟API的通用示例。在lib.cc

#include <iostream>

extern "C" {
  const char * foo (const char * input) {
    std::cout <<
      "The function 'foo' was called with the following "
      "input argument: '" << input << "'" << std::endl;

    return input;
  }
}

使用以下命令编译共享库:

clang++ -fPIC -shared lib.cc -o lib.so

然后,在Python中:

>>> from ctypes import cdll, c_char_p
>>> lib = cdll.LoadLibrary('./lib.so')
>>> lib.foo.restype = c_char_p
>>> result = lib.foo('Hello world!')
The function 'foo' was called with the following input argument: 'Hello world!'
>>> result
'Hello world!'