[Python-Dev] RFC: Add a new builtin strarray type to Python? (original) (raw)

Stephen J. Turnbull stephen at xemacs.org
Sun Oct 2 18:44:50 CEST 2011

Antoine Pitrou writes:

I'm not sure why "StringStream" or "StringBuffer" would be more discoverable, unless you're coming from a language where these names are well-known.

I think they are, but it doesn't really matter, since both are a bit lame, and I doubt either is sufficiently suggestive to be worth changing the name of the module, or even providing an alias. I wish I had a better name to offer, that's all.

I personally like the relative tersity of "StringIO".

The issue is not that I dislike the name; I personally like the name fine. It's that it's definitely not doing anything to reduce the frequency of the "efficient string concatenation" FAQ.

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