I'm wrapping a C-library with the ctypes module on Darwin (ARM64). I have a function that simply initializes a C-struct and returns the struct by value. The C-struct contains one simple C-array type.

In interop scenarios, it might be useful to be able to have a Python string referencing an existing buffer without copies (e.g. if the underlying char data is stored in NumPy/PyTorch tensors, ...

The Python ctypes module offers an even more convenient option for integration with compiled code, with only a very small decrease in functionality. Using ctypes, Python code can call functions and ...