"Guido van Rossum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > But buffer() is on the kick-list for Py3k right now. Perhaps the new > bytes object will make it possible to write the first example above > differently; bytes will be mutable which changes everything.
I never learned about buffers and buffer() because in various ways they have been underdocumented and label problematical and sujbect to revision or removal. > I still expect that a view with string methods will find more abuse > than legitimate use. Perhaps views should first be written and released by advocates as 3rd-party modules (in C or Python), possibly in more than one competing version, to be tested by interested members of the community and subject to the usual criteria for inclusion in the standard library or even the core. Then we would have some performance and usage data to argue with ;-). Terry Jan Reedy _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
