functions to get data type as a character string

python/obitools3/obidms/obidmscolumn/capidmscolumn.pxd

@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@ cdef extern from "obitypes.h" nogil:
     ctypedef char obichar_t  
     ctypedef size_t obiidx_t
 
+    char* name_data_type(int data_type)
+
 
 cdef extern from "obidmscolumn.h" nogil:
     struct OBIDMS_column_t:
@@ -35,6 +37,6 @@ cdef extern from "obidmscolumn.h" nogil:
 cdef class OBIDMS_column:
     cdef OBIDMS_column_p pointer
     cdef OBIDMS_p dms
-    cdef OBIType_t data_type
+    cdef str data_type   # keep as OBIType_t? both?
     cdef str dms_name
     cdef str column_name

python/obitools3/obidms/obidmscolumn/capidmscolumn.pyx

@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ cdef class OBIDMS_column:
         dms_name_b = dms_name.encode(encoding='UTF-8')
         self.dms_name = dms_name
         self.column_name = column_name
-        self.data_type = type
+        self.data_type = (name_data_type(type)).decode('UTF-8')
         if create :
             dms = obi_dms(dms_name_b)
             self.dms = dms