.. _invalid-character-nul:

invalid-character-nul / E2514
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**Message emitted:**

``Invalid unescaped character nul, use "\0" instead.``

**Description:**

*Mostly end of input for python.*




**Additional details:**

There's no need to use end-of-string characters. String objects maintain their
own length.

**Related links:**

- `Null terminator in python  <https://stackoverflow.com/a/24410304/2519059>`_


Created by the `unicode_checker <https://github.com/pylint-dev/pylint/blob/main/pylint/checkers/unicode.py>`__ checker.