[Python-Dev] idea for data-type (data-format) PEP (original) (raw)

Alexander Belopolsky alexander.belopolsky at gmail.com
Wed Nov 1 22:05:17 CET 2006

Martin v. Löwis <martin v.loewis.de> writes:

I'm afraid of "dead" specifications, things whose only motivation is that they look nice. They are just clutter. There are a few examples of this already in Python, like the character buffer interface or the multi-segment buffers.

Multi-segment buffers are only dead because standard library modules do not support them. I often work with text data that is represented as an array of strings. I would love to implement a multi-segment buffer interface on top of that data and be able to do a full text regular expression search without having to concatenate into one big string, but python's re module would not take a multi-segment buffer.

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