Hello, On Fri, 06 Jun 2014 20:11:27 +0900 "Stephen J. Turnbull" <step...@xemacs.org> wrote:
> Paul Sokolovsky writes: > > > That kinda means "string is atomic", instead of your "characters > > are atomic". > > I would be very surprised if a language that behaved that way was > called a "Python subset". No indexing, no slicing, no regexps, no > .split(), no .startswith(), no sorted() or .sort(), ...!? > > If that's not what you mean by "string is atomic", I think you're > using very confusing terminology. I'm sorry if I didn't mention it, or didn't make it clear enough - it's all about layering. On level 0, you treat strings verbatim, and can write some subset of apps (my point is that even this level allows to write lot enough apps). Let's call this set A0. On level 1, you accept that there's some universal enough conventions for some chars, like space or newline. And you can write set of apps A1 > A0. On level 2, you add len(), and - oh magic - you now can center a string within fixed-size field, something you probably to as often as once a month, so hopefully that will keep you busy for few. On level 3, it indeed starts to smell Unicode, we get isdigit(), isalpha(), which require long boring tables, which hopefully can be compressed enough to fit in your pocket. On level 4, it's pumping up, with tolower() and friends, tables for which you carry around in suitcase. On level 5, everything is Unicode, what a bliss! You can even start pretending that no other levels exist (God created Unicode on a second day). On level 6, there're mind-boggling, ugly manual-use utilities to deal with internals of "magic" "working on its own for everyone" encoding to deal with stuff like code-point vs charecters vs surrogate pair vs grapheme separation, etc. So, once again, for me and some other people, it's not that bright idea to shoot for level 5 if levels 0-4 exist and well-proven pragmatic model. And level 6 is still there anyway. -- Best regards, Paul mailto:pmis...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ 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
