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

[Robert Kern]

Robert Kern wrote:
> Michael wrote:
>> I guess, I still don't see how this will work. I'm receiving a C
>> zero-terminated string in my Python program as a 1K byte block (UDP
>> datagram). If the string sent was "abc", then what I receive in Python
>> is <a><b><c><0><garbage><garbage>...<last_garbage_byte>. How is Python
>> going to know where in this 1K byte block the end of the string is? It
>> seems that what I need to do is tell Python that the string ends at
>> zero-relative index 3. What am I missing here?
> 
> Nothing. This is what I would do:
> 
> 
> In [34]: s
> Out[34]: 'abc\x00garbage'
> 
> In [35]: s.split('\x00', 1)[0]
> Out[35]: 'abc'

And I see that this is the advice that John Machin already gave you. Shame on me 
for not reading the thread before replying.

-- 
Robert Kern

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  that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
  an underlying truth."
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