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Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2014 20:06:57 +1100
Subject: Re: Python shell wont open idle or an exisiting py file
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On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 7:51 PM, Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> wrote:
> I should have added 'to C itself', as the string terminator.

Oh, right. Yes, in that sense \0 is special. It's still wrong that an
incoming text string gets interpreted as code, but that's probably
just a consequence of the jump from Python to Tcl.

ChrisA