method returning a string insted of a pointer

Hi,
I've some problems converting with Swig (from C to Python) a function  
that returns a structure.

The structure that "readSignedDocWrap" returns is "SignedDoc":

typedef struct SignedDoc_st {
      char* szFormat;         // data format name
      char* szFormatVer;      // data format version
      int nDataFiles;
      DataFile** pDataFiles;
      int nSignatures;
      SignatureInfo** pSignatures;
      int nNotaries;
      NotaryInfo** pNotaries;
} SignedDoc;

The function "readSignedDocWrap" is:

%inline %{
  SignedDoc* readSignedDocWrap(const char* szFileName)
  {
      SignedDoc *pSignedDoc;
      readSignedDoc(&pSignedDoc, szFileName);
      ....
      return pSignedDoc;
  }
%}

The problem is that running this Python example:

**example.py:
python_object = mylib.readSignedDocWrap("hello.ddoc", 0)
print python_object.nDataFiles  ## works well
print type(python_object.pDataFiles) ## says that pDataFiles is a 
"string" !!!!

The second print says that "pDataFiles" is a string and not a pointer.
How can I get, in the python example, the structure pointed by pDataFiles?
The problem is the same with the field "pNotaries" and "pSignatures".

Any ideas?
thank you very much

claudio





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