John Bauman wrote: > "Matt Helm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>However, what is the proper way to recover the actual string? I have >>been using: >> >> r.split("\0", 1)[0] >> > > I'd prefer to use > r[:-1] > to strip off the last character of the string. > > Unfortunately there's no guarantee that the string occupies the whole of the returned buffer: the first zero byte terminates the string.
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