Writing an end of string character in Python

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Charlie Clark <charlie at begeistert.org> wrote:

> I have a slight bug with the python module for writing attributes in
> BeOS. String values need to be terminated with a "\O" in order for them
> to be correctly read by some applications but I read in PP2E that "\0"
> does not terminate the string in Python. Is there anyway I can force it
> to?

The data in a string object is padded with a NUL, though Python itself
doesn't use it.  PyString_AsString() is even documented to work this
way, so if you're not getting that, something is Very Wrong somewhere.

One gotcha is that Python also allows NUL to appear within a string,
so you should ask the Python API what it thinks not rely on strlen()
and the like to return a correct value.