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On Friday 2012 September 28 21:27, you wrote:
> A tiny bit of googling suggests the following approach:
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3794309/python-ctypes-python-file-object
>-c-file/3794401#3794401

Thanks for your response. 

My "tiny bit of Googling" brought no joy but I did try successfully the same 
method suggested by Alex Martelli: use libc's fdopen to get a FILE * for 
ctypes. I would have posted a reply to my own post but it didn't show up.

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