[issue1943] improved allocation of PyUnicode objects
Antoine Pitrou
report at bugs.python.org
Sun Jan 10 23:52:26 CET 2010
Antoine Pitrou <pitrou at free.fr> added the comment:
> I find that the null termination for 8-bit strings makes low-level
> parsing operations (e.g., parsing a numeric string) safer and easier:
Not to mention faster. The new IO library makes use of it (for newline
detection), on both bytestrings and unicode strings.
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