Yasoob Khalid 3/10/2017

Importing with ctypes in Python: fighting overflows

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This article details a debugging journey where a seemingly simple test fix for the Themis cryptography library's Python wrapper uncovers a deeper issue. The problem was traced to integer overflows when using ctypes to import C error codes, causing incorrect comparisons. The post explains the investigation and the solution to handle C data types correctly in Python.

Importing with ctypes in Python: fighting overflows

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