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Thu Aug 18 20:51:21 CEST 2011 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2011-August/112928.html

Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Aug 2011 17:49:28 +0200
> benjamin.peterson <python-checkins at 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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[Python-Dev] cpython (3.2): NUL -> NULL