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Subject: buffer() as argument to ctypes function which expects c_void_p?
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How do you pass a Python buffer() value as an argument to a ctypes
function, which expects a c_void_p argument? I keep getting TypeError:

ctypes.ArgumentError: argument 2: <type 'exceptions.TypeError'>: wrong type