Issue #5373: Remove restriction on null bytes in docstrings of classes.
diff --git a/Objects/typeobject.c b/Objects/typeobject.c
index 0035f6d..0e79542 100644
--- a/Objects/typeobject.c
+++ b/Objects/typeobject.c
@@ -2178,17 +2178,13 @@
char *doc_str;
char *tp_doc;
- doc_str = _PyUnicode_AsStringAndSize(doc, &len);
+ doc_str = _PyUnicode_AsString(doc);
if (doc_str == NULL) {
Py_DECREF(type);
return NULL;
}
- if ((Py_ssize_t)strlen(doc_str) != len) {
- PyErr_SetString(PyExc_TypeError,
- "__doc__ contains null-bytes");
- Py_DECREF(type);
- return NULL;
- }
+ /* Silently truncate the docstring if it contains null bytes. */
+ len = strlen(doc_str);
tp_doc = (char *)PyObject_MALLOC(len + 1);
if (tp_doc == NULL) {
Py_DECREF(type);