On Sat, Aug 20, 2016 at 5:27 PM Alexander Heger <pyt...@2sn.net> wrote:
> - any code that subscripts, slices, or iterates over a str will break >> > > I would try to keep indexing and slicing, but not iterating. > So anything that wants to loop over a string character by character would need to construct a new object, like ``for c in list(s)``? That seems inefficient. I suppose you might advocate for a new type, some sort of stringview that would allow iteration over a string, but avoid allocating so much space as a list does, but that might bring us back to where we started. > The fixes overall will be a lot easier and obvious than introduction of > unicode as default string type in Python 3.0. > That's a bold claim. Have you considered what's at stake if that's not true? Anyway, why don't you write a proof of concept module for a non-iterable string, throw it on PyPI, and see if people like using it?
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