On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 2:21 PM, Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org> wrote: > I, for one, am very interested. It sounds like the 'unicode' datatype > in Jython does not in fact have O(1) indexing characteristics if the > string contains any characters in the astral plane. Interesting. I > wonder if you have heard from anyone about this affecting their app's > performance? So far we haven't had any complaints - I'm not really sure how often Jython gets used with astral plane characters at this point, but I expect it will happen more in the future, especially once we put together a Jython 3 and Unicode support becomes a stronger expectation. Personally I'm hoping that in that time frame Java will come under pressure to provide a better answer (or we may need to think in the same direction as Dino was thinking in an earlier part of this thread and make a more Python specific String type for Jython....)
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