cython
1from libc.stdlib cimport free
2from c_func cimport get_a_c_string
3
4
5def main():
6cdef char* c_string = NULL
7cdef Py_ssize_t length = 0
8
9# get pointer and length from a C function
10get_a_c_string(&c_string, &length)
11
12try:
13py_bytes_string = c_string[:length] # Performs a copy of the data
14finally:
15free(c_string)
16