Larry Hastings added the comment:

If in C you define
    static char a[5] = "abcde"
C suppresses the trailing '\0'.  That it continued to work okay was a lucky 
break--you must not have looked in many docstrings, or you lucked out and they 
happened to be padded with zeroes.

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