On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 3:17 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 4 June 2014 11:17, Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote: >> My own feeling is that O(1) string indexing operations are a quality of >> implementation issue, not a deal breaker to call it a Python. > > If string indexing & iteration is still presented to the user as "an > array of code points", it should still avoid the bugs that plagued > both Python 2 narrow builds and direct use of UTF-8 encoded Py2 > strings.
It would. The downsides of a UTF-8 representation would be slower iteration and much slower (O(N)) indexing/slicing. ChrisA _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
