Re: Extracting strings from Python beyond the terminating NULL

[Phil Muldoon <pmuldoon at redhat dot com>]

Phil Muldoon wrote:
> And the code in question uses that. So even though we dutifully 
> preserve the embedded null, when the call to Python is made to extract 
> the string, it is terminated on the first null. I'm hoping I missed a 
> length based api call that some python hacker can point me too. 
> PyString_Size(string) actually returns the correct (non null 
> terminated) length btw.
And it only took me to write this email to to figure out that:

PyString_AsStringAndSize(object, &result, &size);


Will fetch the whole string, and report the size as well.

(In the existing code the xstrdup call threw me)

Thanks for reading anyway!

Regards

Phil