examples/unix/ffi_example: Clean up and update the ffi example.

1. Use uctypes.bytearray_at().

Implementation of the "ffi" module predates that of "uctypes", so
initially some convenience functions to access memory were added
to ffi. Later, they landed in uctypes (which follows CPython's
ctype module).

So, replace undocumented experimental functions from ffi to
documented ones from uctypes.

2. Use more suitable type codes for arguments (e.g. "P" (const void*)
instead of "p" (void*).

3. Some better var naming.

4. Clarify some messages printed by the example.

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/examples/unix/ffi_example.py b/examples/unix/ffi_example.py
index f650e33708..3c3c3d2396 100644
--- a/examples/unix/ffi_example.py
+++ b/examples/unix/ffi_example.py
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 import ffi
+import uctypes
 
 libc = ffi.open("libc.so.6")
 print("libc:", libc)
@@ -8,7 +9,7 @@ print()
 perror = libc.func("v", "perror", "s")
 time = libc.func("i", "time", "p")
 open = libc.func("i", "open", "si")
-qsort = libc.func("v", "qsort", "piip")
+qsort = libc.func("v", "qsort", "piiC")
 # And one variable
 errno = libc.var("i", "errno")
 
@@ -16,23 +17,23 @@ print("time:", time)
 print("UNIX time is:", time(None))
 print()
 
-perror("ffi before error")
+perror("perror before error")
 open("somethingnonexistent__", 0)
 print("errno object:", errno)
 print("errno value:", errno.get())
-perror("ffi after error")
+perror("perror after error")
 print()
 
 def cmp(pa, pb):
-    a = ffi.as_bytearray(pa, 1)
-    b = ffi.as_bytearray(pb, 1)
+    a = uctypes.bytearray_at(pa, 1)
+    b = uctypes.bytearray_at(pb, 1)
     print("cmp:", a, b)
     return a[0] - b[0]
 
-cmp_c = ffi.callback("i", cmp, "pp")
-print("callback:", cmp_c)
+cmp_cb = ffi.callback("i", cmp, "PP")
+print("callback:", cmp_cb)
 
 s = bytearray(b"foobar")
 print("org string:", s)
-qsort(s, len(s), 1, cmp_c)
+qsort(s, len(s), 1, cmp_cb)
 print("qsort'ed string:", s)