On Sun, Nov 2, 2014 at 12:39 AM, Leslie S Satenstein <[email protected]> wrote: > Please explain from where or how you get xlen and ylen. > > Do you make a complete pass through the string looking for a NULL character? > If you do, then you are going to check your string once for the length, and > once for the matching.
The original source: https://github.com/PeterScott/streql/blob/master/streql.c Note this line: if (!PyArg_ParseTuple(args, "et#et#", "utf8", &x, &xlen, "utf8", &y, &ylen)) return NULL; Riley is under the impression that Python strings are counted, rather than NUL-terminated. Given the answers to http://stackoverflow.com/questions/237128/is-there-a-reason-python-strings-dont-have-a-string-length-method I'm pretty sure he's right. > [...] -- Joel Rees -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/caar43imysc4az08imby9i77iis+j8qnxz+mo9ywbricrszr...@mail.gmail.com
