Can one have Python receive a variable-length string array from C#?
See the question and my original answer on StackOverflow.NET is capable of transforming the object
type into COM Automation's VARIANT
and the reverse, when going through the p/invoke layer.
VARIANT is declared in python's automation.py
that comes with comtypes
.
What's cool with the VARIANT is it's a wrapper that can hold many things, including arrays of many things.
With that in mind, you can declare you .NET C# code like this:
[DllExport("printstrings", CallingConvention = CallingConvention.Cdecl)]
public static void PrintStrings(ref object obj)
{
obj = new string[] { "hello", "world" };
}
And use it like this in python:
import ctypes
from ctypes import *
from comtypes.automation import VARIANT
dll = ctypes.cdll.LoadLibrary("test")
dll.printstrings.argtypes = [POINTER(VARIANT)]
v = VARIANT()
dll.printstrings(v)
for x in v.value:
print(x)