Chris Angelico <[email protected]>:
> Perhaps we don't have the same understanding of "constant time". Or
> are you saying that you actually store and represent this as those
> arbitrary-precision integers? Every character of every string has to
> be a multiprecision integer?
Yes, although feel free to optimize. The internal implementation isn't
important but those "multiprecision" integers are part of an outward
interface. So you could have:
>>> for c in Text("aq̈u \U0001F64B\U0001F3FF\u200D\u2642\uFE0F"):
... print(c)
...
97
1895826184
117
32
5152920508016097895476141586773579
(Note, though, that Python3 only has integers, there's no
"multiprecision" about them.)
Marko
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