```
drives = win32api.GetLogicalDriveStrings()
drives = drives.split('\000')[:-1]

```

Above is a piece of code from a project I was assigned to. After the first line is executed, the drives variable is the following:

```
C:\D:\

```

After the second line is executed, it turns into this:

```
['C:\\', 'D:\\']

```

But what does '\000' mean exactly? I've never seen that before.