Talin wrote: > Interesting - is it possible that the same technique could be used to > hide differences in character width? Specifically, if I concatenate an > ascii string with a UTF-32 string, can the up-conversion to UTF-32 also > be done lazily?
of course. and if all you do with the result is write it to an UTF-8 stream, it doesn't need to be done at all. this requires a slightly more elaborate C-level API interface than today's PyString_AS_STRING API, though... (which is why this whole exercise belongs on the Python 3000 lists, not on python-dev for 2.X) </F> _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
