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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: The joy of FORTRAN
Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2024 05:48:48 -0000 (UTC)
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On Fri, 4 Oct 2024 01:19:02 -0400, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote:

> Ya know ... most of Python IS 'C'-based libs.
> Never really looked into it, but the 'advanced'
> Python function may just be strtok() with a lot of handy fixes/cheats
> in disguise  :-)

No, because Python strings can contain any characters, including nulls.

I’ve written some of those C extension libraries, and I can tell you the 
string API is more sophisticated than you think.