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

[Michael]

John,

Since I'm new to Python, I'm having trouble understanding what this
means (see below). Would appreciate any help.

if strg[-1] == "\0":
    strg = strg[:-1]

Thanks,
MDM

John Machin wrote:
> Fredrik Lundh wrote:
> > 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).
> >
>
> Probably not; there was no indication after the two messages where I
> mentioned repr :-)