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Diffstat (limited to 'src/libgamma_native_error.pyx')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/libgamma_native_error.pyx | 15 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/src/libgamma_native_error.pyx b/src/libgamma_native_error.pyx index d88f7fe..5c419cc 100644 --- a/src/libgamma_native_error.pyx +++ b/src/libgamma_native_error.pyx @@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ along with this library. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. cimport cython from posix.unistd cimport gid_t +from libc.string cimport strerror as c_strerror cdef extern gid_t libgamma_group_gid @@ -184,3 +185,17 @@ def libgamma_native_value_of_error(name : str) -> int: bs = name.encode('utf-8') + bytes([0]) return int(libgamma_value_of_error(bs)) + +def strerror(error : int) -> str: + ''' + Get a textual description of an error. + + @param error The number of the error. + @return The description of the error. + ''' + cdef const char* text + cdef bytes bs + text = c_strerror(<int>error) + bs = text + return bs.decode('utf-8', 'strict') + |