Writing an end of string character in Python

[Skip Montanaro]

    Charlie> I read in PP2E that "\0" does not terminate the string in
    Charlie> Python. Is there anyway I can force it to?

You can safely embed ASCII NUL characters in Python strings, so if you need
to write a string containing one, no problem:

    s = "I'm a NUL-terminated string\000"
    open("/tmp/trash", "w").write(s)

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