Mark Dickinson <dicki...@gmail.com> added the comment: I find that the null termination for 8-bit strings makes low-level parsing operations (e.g., parsing a numeric string) safer and easier: for example, it makes skipping a series of digits with something like:
while (isdigit(*s)) ++s; safe. I'd imagine that null terminated PyUNICODE arrays would have similar benefits. ---------- nosy: +mark.dickinson _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue1943> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
