[issue5373] TypeError when '\x00' in docstring

Alexandre Vassalotti report at bugs.python.org
Sat Feb 28 20:08:45 CET 2009


Alexandre Vassalotti <alexandre at peadrop.com> added the comment:

The motivation behind the restriction was to prevent the tp_doc member
to get truncated. Since tp_doc is a C string, it cannot contains embeded
null bytes.

However, it seems tp_doc is not used at all for heap types. So, I don't
mind lifting the restriction.

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