win32com, BSTR, and null terminated strings

[Steve Holden]

John Bauman wrote:
> "Matt Helm" <eric at qwhd746oihd49.net> wrote in message 
> news:mzh5xzyr.fsf at qwhd746oihd49.net...
> 
>>However, what is the proper way to recover the actual string? I have
>>been using:
>>
>>   r.split("\0", 1)[0]
>>
> 
> I'd prefer to use
> r[:-1]
> to strip off the last character of the string. 
> 
> 
Unfortunately there's no guarantee that the string occupies the whole of 
the returned buffer: the first zero byte terminates the string.

regards
  Steve
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