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# coding: utf-8
# pylint: disable=invalid-name
"""Base library for MXNet FFI.
Acknowledgement: This file originates from incubator-tvm
"""
import sys
import ctypes
import numpy as np

string_types = (str,)
integer_types = (int, np.int32)
numeric_types = integer_types + (float, np.float32)
# this function is needed for python3
# to convert ctypes.char_p .value back to python str
if sys.platform == "win32":
    encoding = 'cp' + str(ctypes.cdll.kernel32.GetACP())
    py_str = lambda x: x.decode(encoding)
else:
    py_str = lambda x: x.decode('utf-8')

#----------------------------
# helper function in ctypes.
#----------------------------
def c_str(string):
    """Create ctypes char * from a python string
    Parameters
    ----------
    string : string type
        python string

    Returns
    -------
    str : c_char_p
        A char pointer that can be passed to C API
    """
    return ctypes.c_char_p(string.encode('utf-8'))


def c_array(ctype, values):
    """Create ctypes array from a python array

    Parameters
    ----------
    ctype : ctypes data type
        data type of the array we want to convert to

    values : tuple or list
        data content

    Returns
    -------
    out : ctypes array
        Created ctypes array
    """
    return (ctype * len(values))(*values)
