[Python-Dev] bytes (original) (raw)

[Python-Dev] bytes / unicode

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Mon Jun 28 10:28:45 CEST 2010

R. David Murray wrote:

Having such a polystr type would probably make my life easier.

A thought on this poly_str type: perhaps it could be called "ascii", since that's what it would have to be restricted to, and have

a'xxx'

as a literal syntax for it, seeing as literals seem to be one of its main use cases.

I also would like just vent a little frustration at having to use single-character-slice notation when I want to index a character in a string in my algorithms....

Thinking way outside the square, and probably the pale as well, maybe @ could be pressed into service as an infix operator, with

s at i

being equivalent to

s[i:i+1]

-- Greg

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