Writing an end of string character in Python

Aahz Maruch aahz at panix.com
Thu May 31 11:39:11 EDT 2001


In article <PM00038598F48C0FE8 at unknown.unknown.dom>,
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?

No, but you can write out a "\x00" any time you want.
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