[Python-3000] Making more effective use of slice objects in Py3k (original) (raw)

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Sat Aug 26 11:40:19 CEST 2006

Nick Coghlan wrote:

A couple of errors in the sample code.

The new method would have semantics like:

def partitionindices(self, sep, limits=None): if limits is None: limits = range(0, len(self)) else: limits = limits.indices(len(self))

Either that line should be: limits = range(*limits.indices(len(self)))

Or the definition of indices() would need to be changed to return a range() object instead of a 3-tuple.

For comparison, here's the normal copying version that has problems scaling to large strings:

def splitpartition(s): rest = s while 1: prefix, lbrace, rest = rest.partitionindices("{") first, space, rest = rest.partitionindices(" ") second, rbrace, rest = rest.partitionindices("}")

Those 3 lines should be: prefix, lbrace, rest = rest.partition("{") first, space, rest = rest.partition(" ") second, rbrace, rest = rest.partition("}")

Cheers, Nick.

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