C style strings

[bowlofred]

Nothing wrong with that, but you can just split() on the null.

>>> b'Hello\x00\xf1\x03'
b'Hello\x00\xf1\x03'
>>> b'Hello\x00\xf1\x03'.split(b'\x00')[0]
b'Hello'
>>> b'No null'.split(b'\x00')[0]
b'No null'