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

Jim Jewett jimjjewett at gmail.com
Tue Aug 29 23:01:08 CEST 2006


On 8/29/06, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:

On 8/29/06, Josiah Carlson <jcarlson at uci.edu> wrote: > "Guido van Rossum" <guido at python.org> wrote:

The type consistency and predictability is more important to me.

Why is it essential that string views be a different type, rather than an internal implementation detail, like long vs int? Today's strings can already return a new object or an existing one which happens to be equal.

Is this just a matter of efficiency, or are you making a fundamental distinction?

-jJ



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