[New-bugs-announce] [issue12769] String with NUL characters truncated by ctypes when assigning to a char array

[Rafał Dowgird]

New submission from Rafał Dowgird <dowgird at gmail.com>:

The ctypes module seems to truncate NUL-containing strings when assigning to structure fields of type c_char*1024. Reproduced on a 2.7.2 compiled from tarball. Script to reproduce attached.

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components: ctypes
files: reproduce.py
messages: 142274
nosy: Rafal.Dowgird
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: String with NUL characters truncated by ctypes when assigning to a char array
type: behavior
versions: Python 2.7
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file22920/reproduce.py

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