Index: /issm/trunk-jpl/src/wrappers/python/io/FetchPythonData.cpp
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--- /issm/trunk-jpl/src/wrappers/python/io/FetchPythonData.cpp	(revision 19892)
+++ /issm/trunk-jpl/src/wrappers/python/io/FetchPythonData.cpp	(revision 19893)
@@ -805,5 +805,7 @@
 	string=PyBytes_AS_STRING(py_bytes);
 
-	*pstring=string;
+	/*copy string (note strlen does not include trailing NULL): */
+	*pstring=xNew<char>(strlen(string)+1);
+	memcpy(*pstring,string,(strlen(string)+1)*sizeof(char));
 }
 /*}}}*/