Re: [Python-Dev] String views (was: Re: Proof of the pudding: str.partition())

Tim> One of the big disadvantages of string views is that they need to Tim> keep the original object around, no matter how big it is. But in Tim> the case of partition, much of the time the original string Tim> survives for at least a similar period to the partitions. Not necessarily. Presumably a string view would reference another string object's data buffer. A possible optimization would be to convert from a view to a normal string once the original strings' refcount dropped to one, particularly if the view's size was substantially smaller than that of the original string. Skip