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Author pitrou
Recipients Rhamphoryncus, ajaksu2, amaury.forgeotdarc, benjamin.peterson, collinwinter, eric.smith, ezio.melotti, gvanrossum, jafo, jimjjewett, lemburg, mark.dickinson, orivej, pitrou, rhettinger, terry.reedy
Date 2010-01-10.22:52:25
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> 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.
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2010-01-10 22:52:26pitrousetrecipients: + pitrou, lemburg, gvanrossum, collinwinter, rhettinger, terry.reedy, jafo, jimjjewett, amaury.forgeotdarc, mark.dickinson, Rhamphoryncus, eric.smith, ajaksu2, benjamin.peterson, orivej, ezio.melotti
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