R. David Murray wrote:
Having such a poly_str type would probably make my life easier.
A thought on this poly_str type: perhaps it could be called "ascii", since that's what it would have to be restricted to, and have a'xxx' as a literal syntax for it, seeing as literals seem to be one of its main use cases.
I also would like just vent a little frustration at having to use single-character-slice notation when I want to index a character in a string in my algorithms....
Thinking way outside the square, and probably the pale as well, maybe @ could be pressed into service as an infix operator, with s...@i being equivalent to s[i:i+1] -- 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
