new string method in 2.5 (partition)

[Gabriel Genellina]

At Friday 22/9/2006 04:53, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

> > ... a python string has both a length *and* a null terminator (for
> > ease of interfacing C routines ...
>
>How does that work for strings with embedded nulls? Or are the C routines
>simply fooled into seeing a truncated part of the string?

This is for simple char* strings, ASCIIZ. If your C code can accept 
embedded nulls, surely has made other provisions - like receiving the 
buffer length as a parameter. If not, it will see only a truncated string.



Gabriel Genellina
Softlab SRL 


	
	
		
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