Writing an end of string character in Python

[Grant Edwards]

In article <mailman.991323107.25262.python-list at python.org>, Skip Montanaro wrote:
>
>    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)

Or:

  s = whereverYourStringsComeFrom()
  
  open("/tmp/trash","w").write(s+'\000')

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