Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Aug 2011 17:49:28 +0200
> benjamin.peterson <python-check...@python.org> wrote:
> > -        PyErr_SetString(PyExc_TypeError, "embedded NUL character");
> > +        PyErr_SetString(PyExc_TypeError, "embedded NULL character");
> 
> Are you sure? IIRC, NUL is the little name of ASCII character 0
> (while NULL would be the NULL pointer).

Yes, that's the traditional name. I was surprised that the C99 standard uses
"null character" in almost all cases. Example:

"The construction '\0' is commonly used to represent the null character."


So I think it should be either NUL or "null character" with the lower
case spelling.


Stefan Krah

 
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