[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Ah, I forgot the data is part of the PyString object itself, not stored as a > separate char* array. Without a char* in the object it's kind of hard to do > views.
That wouldn't be a problem if substrings were a separate subclass of basestring with their own representation. That's probably a good idea anyway, since you wouldn't want slicing to return substrings by default -- it should be something you have to explicitly ask for. 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