I have some functions in C++ that take a void *, for example hexdump(). The main use of this, obviously, is to pass a buffer and get the hex dump as a return value - without having to worry about the type passed, eg: std::string str("This is a test"); hexdump(str.data(), str.length()); std::wstring wstr(L"This is a test") hexdump(str.data(), str.length() * sizeof(wchar_t)); I want to know the best way of exposing such a function to python without being too 'string specific' (theres no reason I couldn't do hexdump(&some_int, sizeof(int)) in C++, so I want something similar in python, if I can get it). Now hexdump is only an example, I have a few other functions that do the same (for example, recv() and send() in a socket class). Any ideas would be appreciated. Right now, the best thing I can think of is to create a wrapper function (for use in the python interface only) that accepts a std::string/std::wstring and calls hexdump, however this hamstrings me when I want to do things like integers, or complex structures. Also, on another note, is there somewhere that has all of boost already pythonized? I manually converted boost::date_time (at least all the gregorian and posix_time stuff) myself, however I would have expected most of boost to have been converted to python already ;) -- PreZ :) Founder. The Neuromancy Society (http://www.neuromancy.net)