Re: [Python-Dev] Implementation of variable sized objects.

2011-03-09 Thread Eric Smith
On 3/9/2011 7:55 AM, Mark Shannon wrote: Hi, I hope this is the right place to ask this. Do anyone know why the str (unicode) object is implemented with an external buffer like list, rather than internal one like tuple and bytes? Would anything bad happen if it were changed? I'm not suggesting

[Python-Dev] Implementation of variable sized objects.

2011-03-09 Thread Mark Shannon
Hi, I hope this is the right place to ask this. Do anyone know why the str (unicode) object is implemented with an external buffer like list, rather than internal one like tuple and bytes? Would anything bad happen if it were changed? I'm not suggesting any changes, just doing some research. C