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

Josiah Carlson jcarlson at uci.edu
Sun Aug 27 08:23:38 CEST 2006

"Jim Jewett" <jimjjewett at gmail.com> wrote:

On 8/26/06, Josiah Carlson <jcarlson at uci.edu> wrote: > Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at iinet.net.au> wrote: > > There are a couple of existing workarounds for > > this: buffer() objects, and the start/stop arguments > > to a variety of string methods. Neither of these is > > particular convenient to work with, and buffer() is > > slated to go away in Py3k. > Ahh, but string views offer a significantly more > reasonable mechanism. As I understand it, Nick is suggesting that slice objects be used as a sequence (not just string) view.

I'm not sure there is a compelling use-case for offering views on general ordered sequences (lists). Unicode and bytes strings, sure, but I don't think I've ever really been hurting for faster/more memory efficient list slicing... Maybe I'm strange.

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