From c7848575273a475aaef0be28c2e7f77199804b22 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: richard <github@fantastic.me.uk>
Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2021 00:34:43 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] return empty string for null pointers
 https://github.com/electronstudio/raylib-python-cffi/issues/51

---
 pyray/__init__.py | 5 ++++-
 version.py        | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/pyray/__init__.py b/pyray/__init__.py
index 0a683ad..a050c26 100644
--- a/pyray/__init__.py
+++ b/pyray/__init__.py
@@ -77,7 +77,10 @@ def makefunc(a):
         if result is None:
             return
         if str(type(result)) == "<class '_cffi_backend._CDataBase'>" and str(result).startswith("<cdata 'char *'"):
-            result = ffi.string(result).decode('utf-8')
+            if str(result) == "<cdata 'char *' NULL>":
+                result = ""
+            else:
+                result = ffi.string(result).decode('utf-8')
         return result
     return func
 
diff --git a/version.py b/version.py
index b329d28..283135e 100644
--- a/version.py
+++ b/version.py
@@ -1 +1 @@
-__version__ = "4.0.0.1"
\ No newline at end of file
+__version__ = "4.0.0.2"
\ No newline at end of file