04.06.14 17:02, Paul Moore написав(ла):
On 4 June 2014 14:39, Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com> wrote:
I think than breaking O(1) expectation for indexing makes the implementation significant incompatible with Python. Virtually all string operations in Python operates with indices.
I don't use indexing on strings except in rare situations. Sure I use lots of operations that may well use indexing *internally* but that's the point. MicroPython can optimise those operations without needing to guarantee O(1) indexing, and I'd be fine with that.
Any non-trivial text parsing uses indices or regular expressions (and regular expressions themself use indices internally). It would be interesting to collect a statistic about how many indexing operations happened during the life of a string in typical (Micro)Python program.