diff --git a/pythonosc/parsing/osc_types.py b/pythonosc/parsing/osc_types.py
index e15eb2365ee4064ba4699721892227966852bb13..09f5a04df9c225750cb458e76a2effdeeeb268da 100644
--- a/pythonosc/parsing/osc_types.py
+++ b/pythonosc/parsing/osc_types.py
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ def get_string(dgram, start_index):
   """
   offset = 0
   try:
-    while dgram[start_index + offset] != 0:
+    while dgram[start_index + offset] != '\x00':
       offset += 1
     if offset == 0:
       raise ParseError(