[C++-sig] supporting binary strings

[David Abrahams]

David Abrahams <dave at boost-consulting.com> writes:

> greg Landrum <greglandrum at mindspring.com> writes:
> 
> > The default string conversion behavior of BPLv2 truncates strings
> > containing nulls.  BPLv1 did not do this (Python strings containing
> > nulls were properly passed to the C++ layer).
> > 
> > I've made two small mods to change the behavior back.  A context diff
> > for the changes is attached.
> 
> Your changes look reasonable to me. The ones in the .cpp file are not
> the most efficient implementation possible, because two copies of the
> C++ string will be created. A more-efficient implementation would not
> be able to use the slot_rvalue_from_python scaffolding, though. I
> think I'll apply your patch; we can optimize later if neccessary.

Done, including a test case.

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