How do I converted a null (0) terminated string to a Python string?

[Fredrik Lundh]

Michael wrote:

> Thanks for your reply. Just wondering... how are Python strings
> formatted? Evidently they're not 0 terminated.

have you tried *printing* the thing you got via UDP?

to get a programmer-friendly representation of an arbitrary object, use

     print repr(obj)

(where obj is your string, in this case).

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