Custom IR type fails to verify

llvmlite
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I’ve created a custom type extending from the llvmlite.ir.types.Type class. I implement the necessary functions such as format_constant, __eq__, etc.

The following IR generated from creating a global constant:

@"name" = internal global [9 x i8] c"nicholas\00"

generates the following error when verifying the module:

RuntimeError: LLVM IR parsing error
<string>:5:37: error: expected string
@"name" = internal global [9 x i8] c"nicholas
                                   ^

Any help would be appreciated.
(Note that both LLI and LLC do not produce any errors!)

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Solved! The escape code \00 belongs in the IR generated and should not be escaped out in the python string itself! Example: \\00

Is it possible we could get better errors here?