On Thu, Jun 7, 2018 at 1:55 PM, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > On Tue, 05 Jun 2018 23:27:16 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote: > >> And an ASCIIZ string cannot contain a byte value of zero. The parallel >> is exact. > > Why should we, as Python programmers, care one whit about ASCIIZ strings? > They're not relevant. You might as well say that file names cannot > contain the character "π" because ASCIIZ strings don't support it. > > No they don't, and yet nevertheless file names can and do contain > characters outside of the ASCIIZ range.
Under Linux, a file name contains bytes, most commonly representing UTF-8 sequences. So... an ASCIIZ string *can* contain that character, or at least a representation of it. Yet it cannot contain "\0". ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
