While the article clearly says this is a toy/example and so on, one of the nice points of the Python version is that it doesn't e.g. - segfault the interpreter

While the article clearly says this is a toy/example and so on, one of the nice points of the Python version is that it doesn't e.g. - segfault the interpreter if you pass in something that's not a string - read bogus memory if the length of the string is < 24