On 4/16/06, Guido van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think you may be right. I implemented this (it was really simple to > do) but then found I had to fix tons of places that iterate over > strings.
I'm abandoning this project; the patch is SF patch 1471291. I'm no longer in favor of this idea; it's just not practical, and the premise that there are few good reasons to iterate over a string has been refuted by the use cases I found in both sre and difflib. -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
