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Aahz wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On Tue, Dec 19, 2006, Guido van Rossum wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On 12/19/06, Fredrik Lundh <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:fredrik@pythonware.com"><fredrik@pythonware.com></a> wrote:
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<pre wrap="">(I haven't abandoned this, but it hasn't been a top priority; partially
because Larry Hastings work on smarter concatenation has showed that
"lazy evaluation" can work in today's Python, and partially due to the
schedule/discussion issues you write about.)
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<pre wrap="">Now's the time for that work to come out of the closet. Should I hold
off on the basic unification-Guido-style (discarding str and renaming
unicode to str, essentially) or can I start that now and will the new
work be able to build on top of that?
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<pre wrap=""><!---->My recollection is that Larry said he could make it work with Unicode
with little difficulty -- I suspect he's either on vacation or ignoring
this thread, so I'm renaming and cc'ing him.
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(Howdy folks. I wasn't reading the Python 3000 mailing list, but here
I am.)<br>
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The "lazy strings" patch can be adapted to Unicode strings, you bet.
And if it has a chance of going in I'm happy to do it. I'm guessing
there's more interest in the lazy concatenation than in the lazy
slices, so I'll file them as separate patches. Gimme, oh, two weeks.<br>
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Cheers,<br>
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<i>larry</i>
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