Josiah Carlson wrote: > A bit of free thought brings me to the (half-baked) idea that if string > methods accepted any object which conformed to the buffer interface; > mmap, buffer, array, ... instances could gain all of the really > convenient methods that make strings the objects to use in many cases.
Not a bad idea, but they couldn't literally be string methods. They'd have to be standalone functions like we used to have in the string module before it got mercilessly deprecated. :-) Not sure what happens to this when the unicode/bytearray future arrives, though. Treating a buffer of bytes as a character string isn't going to be so straightforward then. Greg _______________________________________________ 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
