[Python-3000] Droping find/rfind? (original) (raw)

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Fri Aug 25 14:33:46 CEST 2006

Fredrik Lundh wrote:

Nick Coghlan wrote:

Nick Coghlan wrote:

With a variety of "view types", that work like the corresponding builtin type, but reference the original data structure instead of creating copies support for string views would require some serious interpreter surgery, though, and probably break quite a few extensions... Why do you say that? because I happen to know a lot about how Python's string types are implemented ?

I believe you're thinking about something far more sophisticated than what I'm suggesting. I'm just talking about a Python data type in a standard library module that trades off slower performance with smaller strings (due to extra method call overhead) against improved scalability (due to avoidance of copying strings around).

make a view of it so to make a view of a string, you make a view of it ?

Yep - by using all those "start" and "stop" optional arguments to builtin string methods to implement the methods of a string view in pure Python. By creating the string view all you would really be doing is a partial application of start and stop arguments on all of the relevant string methods.

I've included an example below that just supports len, str and partition(). The source object survives for as long as the view does - the idea is that the view should only last while you manipulate the string, with only real strings released outside the function via return statements or yield expressions.

All that said, I think David Hopwood nailed the simplest answer to Walter's particular use case with:

def splitindex(s): pos = 0 while True: try: posstart = s.index("{", pos) posarg = s.index(" ", posstart) posend = s.index("}", posarg) except ValueError: break prefix = s[pos:posstart] if prefix: yield (None, prefix) yield (s[posstart+1:posarg], s[posarg+1:posend]) pos = posend+1 rest = s[pos:] if rest: yield (None, rest)

list(splitindex('foo{spam eggs}bar{foo bar}')) [(None, 'foo'), ('spam', 'eggs'), (None, 'bar'), ('foo', 'bar')]

Cheers, Nick.

Simple string view example

class strview(object): def new(cls, source, start=None, stop=None): self = object.new(cls) self.source = "%s" % source self.start = start if start is not None else 0 self.stop = stop if stop is not None else len(source) return self def str(self): return self.source[self.start:self.stop] def len(self): return self.stop - self.start def partition(self, sep): _src = self.source try: startsep = _src.index(sep, self.start, self.stop) except ValueError: # Separator wasn't found! return self, _NULL_STR, _NULL_STR # Return new views of the three string parts endsep = startsep + len(sep) return (strview(_src, self.start, startsep), strview(_src, startsep, endsep), strview(_src, endsep, self.stop))

_NULL_STR = strview('')

def splitview(s): rest = strview(s) while 1: prefix, found, rest = rest.partition("{") if prefix: yield (None, str(prefix)) if not found: break first, found, rest = rest.partition(" ") if not found: break second, found, rest = rest.partition("}") if not found: break yield (str(first), str(second))

list(splitview('foo{spam eggs}bar{foo bar}')) [(None, 'foo'), ('spam', 'eggs'), (None, 'bar'), ('foo', 'bar')]

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