Re: Long strings as function parameters

2005-01-10 Thread Nick Coghlan
Jeremy Bowers wrote: I had thought there was an obvious class in the standard library to assist with this, but I must have been wrong. buffer is the closest current contender, but I believe it's on the outer due to some problems with its implementation. I think the intention is to eventually have

Re: Long strings as function parameters

2005-01-10 Thread Terry Reedy
"Dan Bishop" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > In Python, *every* expression is a pointer. Minor but to me important nit: this should start "In the CPython implementation of Python" ... Humans can understand and execute Python code without knowing about computer me

Re: Long strings as function parameters

2005-01-09 Thread Jeremy Bowers
On Sun, 09 Jan 2005 08:36:04 -0800, onlyonemc wrote: > I would like to have functions that operate on long strings, 10-100 MB. In > C I would of course pass a pointer to the string for a quick function > call. What is an efficient way to do this in python? Cheers, > -mark Others have pointed ou

Re: Long strings as function parameters

2005-01-09 Thread Dan Bishop
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I would like to have functions that operate on long strings, 10-100 MB. > In C I would of course pass a pointer to the string for a quick > function call. What is an efficient way to do this in python? > Cheers, In Python, *every* expression is a pointer. This fact is

Re: Long strings as function parameters

2005-01-09 Thread Irmen de Jong
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to have functions that operate on long strings, 10-100 MB. In C I would of course pass a pointer to the string for a quick function call. What is an efficient way to do this in python? Err, just pass the string to the function? In Python, all function argument