Tim Chase <python.l...@tim.thechases.com>: > On 2014-06-04 00:58, Paul Rubin wrote: >> I've never understood why not use UTF-8 for everything. > > If you use UTF-8 for everything, then you end up in a world where > string-indexing (see ChrisA's other side thread on this topic) is no > longer an O(1) operation, but an O(N) operation.
Most string operations are O(N) anyway. Besides, you could try and be smart and keep a recent index cached so simple for loops would be O(N) instead of O(N**2). So the idea of keeping strings internally in UTF-8 might not be all that bad. Marko -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
