Jack Jansen wrote: > > > > [on the user-supplies-buffer interface] > > > I think this would be much less error-prone than having fixed-length buffers > > > all over the place. > > > > PyArg_ParseTuple() should probably raise an error in case the > > data doesn't fit into the buffer. > > Ah, that's right, that solves most of that problem. > > > > [on the malloced interface] > > Good point. You'll still need the buffer_len output parameter > > though -- otherwise you wouldn't be able tell the size of the > > allocated buffer (the returned data may not be terminated). > > Are you sure? I would expect the "eS" format to be used to obtain 8-bit data > in some local encoding, and I would expect that all 8-bit encodings of unicode > data would still allow for null-termination. Or are there 8-bit encodings out > there where a zero byte is normal occurrence and where it can't be used as > terminator? Not sure whether these exist or not, but they are certainly a possibility to keep in mind. Perhaps adding "es#" and "es" (with 0-byte check) would be ideal ?! -- Marc-Andre Lemburg ______________________________________________________________________ Business: http://www.lemburg.com/ Python Pages: http://www.lemburg.com/python/
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