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ShareableList removes trailing zeroes from strings and bytes #96779

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from multiprocessing.shared_memory import ShareableList
s, b = '\x00\x01\x00', bytes([0,1,0])
sl = ShareableList([s, b])
s == sl[0], b == sl[1]

gives (False, False) because the trailing zeroes get lost in the ShareableList: sl holds ShareableList(['\x00\x01', b'\x00\x01'], name='wnsm_...'). I would expect that strings and bytes keep the trailing zeroes also when added to a ShareableList.

Your environment

  • CPython versions tested on: 3.8.5, 3.10.6
  • Operating system and architecture: Windows 10, 64bit

Analysis

There are three places in class ShareableList in Lib/multiprocessing/shared_memory.py, where trailing zeroes are explicitely removed: ...rstrip(b'\x00').... For what reason?

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