On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 1:48 AM, Paul Sokolovsky <pmis...@gmail.com> wrote:

> The point of inplace operations (memoryview's, other stuff already in
> Python) is to avoid unneeded memory allocation and copying. For 1Tb
> bytearray with 1Tb of RAM, it will be very hard to do. (Ditto for 100K
> bytearray with 150K RAM.)
>

So you'll have to figure a better way to do it. We're not going to add
inplace_lower(), and that's the final word. (Of course you can add it to
microPython as an extension of the language.)

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--Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)
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