Antoine Pitrou <pit...@free.fr> added the comment: > Antoine Pitrou wrote: > > > > Antoine Pitrou <pit...@free.fr> added the comment: > > > >>> I am not sure PyUnicode_Decode() should treat NULL as an empty string. > >> > >> Definitely not. That would hide programming errors. > > > > Well, this could break some third-party code. > > If that code passes NULL in as buffer s, that 3rd party code is > already broken and the patch would hide this fact.
Why broken? Passing NULL as a pointer and 0 as the length doesn't sound "broken". Other APIs such as PyString_FromStringAndSize() allow exactly this convention. ---------- title: Some "trivial" python 2.x pickles fails to load in Python 3.2 -> Some "trivial" python 2.x pickles fails to load in Python 3.2 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue11286> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
