Antoine Pitrou <pit...@free.fr> added the comment: > Note that in Python 2.x you don't have such issues because > there, most tools for text processing will happily work on > any sort of buffer, so you don't need a string sub-type > in order to implement e.g. references into another string > (the buffer type will allow you to do this easily).
The new buffer API has a provision for type flags, although none of them had a chance to be implemented by the original author before he ran away... There could be a type flag for unicode characters and then its support could be implemented in the memoryview object. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue1943> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
