Null-terminated strings with struct module?

[Paul Rubin]

Roy Smith <roy at panix.com> writes:
>         s1 = self.directory + "\0"
>         s2 = self.fileName + "\0"
>         s3 = self.dateString + "\0"
>         s4 = self.name + "\0"
>         s5 = struct.pack ("!IB", self.id, self.perTargetFlag)
>         data = s1 + s2 + s3 + s4 + s5
> 
> which is pretty ugly.  Is there a neater way to do this?

Shrug.  

  data = "%s\0%s\0%s\0%s\0%s"% (self.directory, self.fileName,
                                self.dateString, self.name,
                                struct.pack (...))

Dunno if that's better or worse.