[Python-Dev] PEP 393: Flexible String Representation (original) (raw)

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Wed Jan 26 00:24:12 CET 2011

On Tue, 25 Jan 2011 21:08:01 +1000 Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:

One change I would propose is that rather than hiding flags in the low order bits of the str pointer, we expand the use of the existing "state" field to cover the representation information in addition to the interning information.

+1, by the way. The "state" field has many bits available (even if we decide to make it a char rather than an int).

Regards

Antoine.

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