Martin v. Löwis <martin <at> v.loewis.de> writes: > > I'm afraid of "dead" specifications, things whose only motivation is > that they look nice. They are just clutter. There are a few examples > of this already in Python, like the character buffer interface or > the multi-segment buffers. >
Multi-segment buffers are only dead because standard library modules do not support them. I often work with text data that is represented as an array of strings. I would love to implement a multi-segment buffer interface on top of that data and be able to do a full text regular expression search without having to concatenate into one big string, but python's re module would not take a multi-segment buffer. _______________________________________________ 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
