[Python-Dev] String views (original) (raw)

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Mon Sep 5 02:42:59 CEST 2005

Steve Holden wrote:

Since Python strings can contain embedded NULs, doesn't that rather poo on the idea of passing pointers to their data to C functions as things stand?

If a Python function is clearly wrapping a C function, one doesn't expect to be able to pass strings with embedded NULs to it.

Just because a Python string can contain embedded NULs doesn't mean it makes sense to use such strings in all circumstances.

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