Antoine Pitrou <pit...@free.fr> 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:
Not to mention faster. The new IO library makes use of it (for newline detection), on both bytestrings and unicode strings. ---------- _______________________________________ 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
