On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 08:28:45PM +1200, Greg Ewing wrote: > 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.
This seems like a good idea. > > 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] > And this is way beyond being intuitive. -- Senthil _______________________________________________ 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