https://gradot.dev/blog/tags/c/ Recent content in C on Pierre Gradot Hugo en-us Wed, 17 Jun 2020 16:40:29 +0200 https://gradot.dev/blog/posts/2020/c-python-sharing-strings/ Wed, 17 Jun 2020 16:40:29 +0200 https://gradot.dev/blog/posts/2020/c-python-sharing-strings/ <p>If you use a buffer of bytes to share strings between C (or C++) and Python, you may end up with weird results, because both languages do not represent strings the same way.</p> <p>I got bitten lately and here is what I have learnt.</p> <h2 id="c-strings">C strings</h2> <p>If you have used C to handle strings once in your lifetime, then you have run into one of the most painful things in C: null-terminated strings 😑</p>