Facundo Batista wrote:
A thread in PyAr raised the question that, considering that strings are immutable, why a slice of a string is a copy and not a reference to a part of that string.
Because it would make it too easy to accidentally keep a large string alive via a reference to a small part of it. Some way of explicitly requesting a view into another string might be desirable, but it shouldn't be the default behaviour for string slicing. -- 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
