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Fri Oct 15 10:05:30 CEST 2004 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2004-October/049432.html

Fredrik Lundh wrote:
>>Applied patch for [ 1047269 ] Buffer overwrite in PyUnicode_AsWideChar.
>>
>>Python 2.3.x candidate.
> 
> 
> why bother?
> 
> the unicode object you're copying to holds size+1 characters, so all the
> code does is copying an extra NULL character...  completely harmless.

That's true for Py_UNICODE, but not necessarily for the
wchar_t* buffer your dealing with.

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[Python-Dev] Re: python/dist/src/Objects unicodeobject.c, 2.228, 2.229