Using ctypes.c_void_p as an input to glTexImage2D?

Question

I'm using a 3rd party DLL to load in some raw image data, and I want to use this raw image data as a texture in openGL. However, the c function returns a void*, and I need to somehow convert this so it will work as the "pixels" parameter to glTexImage2D. Right now my code looks like something this:

data = c_void_p(vdll.vlImageGetData()) 
glTexImage2D(GL_TEXTURE_2D, 1, GL_RGB8, 1024, 1024, 0, GL_RGB, GL_UNSIGNED_BYTE, data )

However, I get a TypeError complaining that data 'cannot be converted to pointer'. Does anyone know how to get this to work?

Edit: Figured it out. Basically what I do is this:

data = create_string_buffer( BUFFER_SIZE )
data = dll.vlImageGetData()
glTexImage2D(GL_TEXTURE_2D, 1, GL_RGB8, 1024, 1024, 0, GL_RGB, GL_UNSIGNED_BYTE, data )

Answer 1

An answer to a similar question suggested to use ctypes.cast().