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On 12/9/2013 2:24 PM, Sells, Fred wrote:
> I'm using python 2.6 on Linux/CentOs 6.x

I would use the latest 2.7 (or 3.3) for a new project if at all possible.

> I'm getting ctypes to work, but getting stuck on the use of  .argtypes.  Can someone point out what I'm doing.  This is my first use of ctypes and it looks like I'm getting different definitions in stackoverflow that may correspond to different version of python.

In particular, I am sure that there have been bugfixes for ctypes.


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Terry Jan Reedy