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Author mark.dickinson
Recipients Julian, eric.smith, mark.dickinson, skrah
Date 2013-04-13.14:51:55
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> Is padding with NUL a legitimate use case?

I don't see a good reason to disallow it, and it seems like a fairly plausible need.  Numpy, for example, pads strings will NUL bytes when placing a short string in long fixed-width field.
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