Function read_string1

Lib/pickletools.py:409–424

r""" >>> import io >>> read_string1(io.BytesIO(b"\x00")) '' >>> read_string1(io.BytesIO(b"\x03abcdef")) 'abc'

(f)

def read_string1(f):
    r"""
    >>> import io
    >>> read_string1(io.BytesIO(b"\x00"))
    ''
    >>> read_string1(io.BytesIO(b"\x03abcdef"))
    'abc'
    """

    n = read_uint1(f)
    assert n >= 0
    data = f.read(n)
    if len(data) == n:
        return data.decode("latin-1")
    raise ValueError("expected %d bytes in a string1, but only %d remain" %
                     (n, len(data)))

string1 = ArgumentDescriptor(
              name="string1",