[Python-3000] Making strings non-iterable (original) (raw)
Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Tue Apr 18 02:08:08 CEST 2006
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Tim Peters wrote:
I expect it depends on whether someone writes text-processing algorithms. If you do, it's quite natural to iterate over strings.
Personally I never find it natural to iterate over strings, because it makes me think "this is going to be horrendously inefficient", and I go looking for some way of doing what I want en mass, using the existing string methods, or regular expressions, or something.
That's why I didn't think it would have all that much effect on real-life code. But maybe others aren't so averse to string-iterating as I am.
-- Greg
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