Georg Brandl <ge...@python.org> added the comment:

Well, then I would have no problem with checking for that condition beforehand 
and raising ValueError.

On the other hand, it seems that implementations either return a correct string 
or NULL, so just erroring out in case of NULL would be fine as well.

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