In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, John Machin wrote: > In other words, if the last byte of strg is NUL, throw it away. > > The truly paranoid would code that as > if strg and strg[-1] etc etc > so that it wouldn't blow up if strg is empty -- strange things can > happen when you are reading other people's data :-)
I would spell it: if strg.endswith('\0'): strg = strg[:-1] Ciao, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list