Josiah Carlson wrote:
Want my advice? Aim for Py3k text as your primary target, but as a wrapper, not as the core type (I put the odds at somewhere around 0 for such a core type change). If you are good, and want to make guys like me happy, you could even make it support the buffer interface for non-text (bytes, array, mmap, etc.), unifying (via wrapper) the behavior of bytes and text.
This is still my preferred approach, too - for local optimisation of an algorithm, a string view type strikes me as an excellent idea. For the core data type, though, keeping the behaviour comparatively simple and predictable counterbalances the desire for more speed. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia --------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.boredomandlaziness.org