[issue1943] improved allocation of PyUnicode objects

[Adam Olsen]

Adam Olsen <rhamph at gmail.com> added the comment:

On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 14:59, Marc-Andre Lemburg
<report at bugs.python.org> wrote:
> BTW, I'm not aware of any changes to the PyUnicodeObject by some
> fastsearch implementation. Could you point me to this ?

    /* We allocate one more byte to make sure the string is Ux0000 terminated.
       The overallocation is also used by fastsearch, which assumes that it's
       safe to look at str[length] (without making any assumptions about what
       it contains). */

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