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DLL printf not working - mperemsky - Jan-02-2017
I have just installed python 3.6 (32-bit), eclipse, and PyDev. I am going through the Gray Hat Python book (which uses 2.5) and cannot get the dll call for printf to work properly. I have tried to find a solution to no avail.
The code is as follows. It will only print the first character of the output string to the console.
from ctypes import *
msvcrt = cdll.msvcrt
msvcrt.printf
message_string = "Hello World!\n"
msvcrt.printf("Testing: %s", message_string)
Output:
T
RE: DLL printf not working - Larz60+ - Jan-02-2017
I get the same result - You should report it to python.org as a bug
This doesn't work in any python 3 version (I tried 3 of them)
I am guessing that it might not be a bug, but have to do with text automatically being utf-8
in python. See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8452961/convert-string-to-ascii-value-python
RE: DLL printf not working - mperemsky - Jan-02-2017
(Jan-02-2017, 05:21 AM)Larz60+ Wrote: I get the same result - You should report it to python.org as a bug
This doesn't work in any python 3 version (I tried 3 of them)
I am guessing that it might not be a bug, but have to do with text automatically being utf-8
in python. See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8452961/convert-string-to-ascii-value-python
I just installed Python 2.7 and ran the same code and I got the expected results. I will send a message as you suggested.
RE: DLL printf not working - Larz60+ - Jan-02-2017
Quote:Quote:I am guessing that it might not be a bug, but have to do with text automatically being utf-8I just installed Python 2.7 and ran the same code and I got the expected results. I will send a message as you suggested.
in python
Don't think it's a bug