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>Fredrik> Python strings are character buffers with a known length, not
>Fredrik> null-terminated C strings. the CPython implementation
>Fredrik> guarantees that the character buffer has a trailing NULL
>Fredrik> character, but that's mostly to make it eas
Fredrik> Python strings are character buffers with a known length, not
Fredrik> null-terminated C strings. the CPython implementation
Fredrik> guarantees that the character buffer has a trailing NULL
Fredrik> character, but that's mostly to make it easy to pass Python
Fredrik>
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> As a Python programmer I'd get back what look like three strings: "http",
> ":", and "//www.python.org/". If each of them was a view onto part of the
> original string, only the last one would truly refer to a NUL-terminated
> sequence of characters. If I then wanted t