Re: [Python-Dev] The "lazy strings" patch

Josiah Carlson wrote:

It would be a radical change for Python 2.6, and really the 2.x series, likely requiring nontrivial changes to extension modules that deal with strings, and the assumptions about strings that have held for over a decade.

the assumptions hidden in everyone's use of the C-level string API is the main concern here, at least for me; radically changing the internal format is not a new idea, but it's always been held off because we have no idea how people are using the C API.

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