2008/5/22 Oleg Broytmann <phd@phd.pp.ru>:
I remember some discussions... let me see... google to help... aha:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-3000/2006-August/003224.html http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-3000/2006-August/003242.html
These descussions are too general, and implies some work regarding the unification between slice and range, and discusses sequences in general... I'm just asking about strings (the discussion could apply similarly to bytes, but not bytearrays), and why slicing them returns a copy. Of course that when the slice has the step component different that 1, or reverses the string, this could not be done. But when the slice is mystring[x:y], being x < y, we *could* return just a view of the string (llot of emphasis to that "could"). Thanks. -- . Facundo Blog: http://www.taniquetil.com.ar/plog/ PyAr: http://www.python.org/ar/