Jonathan Slenders wrote: > Hi everyone, > Today was the 3rd time I came across a situation where it was needed to > retrieve all the positions of the line endings (or beginnings) in a very > long python string as efficiently as possible. > > [...] > > Would it make sense to add a `line_offsets()` method to `str`? > Or even `character_offsets(character)` if we want to do that for any > character? > Or `indexes(...)/indices(...)` if we would allow substrings of arbitrary > lengths?
Perhaps a first step could be a thirdparty package that implements this as an extension module (in C or C++)? _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/7YLRN6XBRPAK2GXAIZ7K5VQ6HNII6SLI/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
