[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > it's about time that someone sat down and merged the string and unicode > > implementations into a single "stringlib" code base (see the SRE sources for > > an efficient way to do this in plain C). [1] > [...] > > 1) anyone want me to start working on this ? > > This would be a waste of time: In Python 3, the string type will be > gone (or, rather, the unicode type, depending on the point of view).
no matter what ends up in Python 3, you'll still need to perform operations on both 8-bit buffers and Unicode buffers. (not to mention that a byte type that doesn't support find/split/count etc is pretty useless). </F> _______________________________________________ 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
