Clean way to read a null-terminated (C-style) string from a file?

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Full question
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3277...

Question links:
[a bit of rather ugly code]: http://bytes.com/topic/python/answers/41...
[universal newlines support]: https://docs.python.org/2/library/functi...
[struct]: https://docs.python.org/2/library/struct...
[doesn't look like it supports reading arbitrary-length C strings at all]: https://stackoverflow.com/q/26060110/398...
[ctypes]: https://docs.python.org/2/library/ctypes...

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#python #string #null #python2x #cstrings

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