Fredrik Lundh fredrik@pythonware.com wrote:
Ron Adam wrote:
I think what may be missing is a larger set of higher level string functions that will work with lists of strings directly. Then lists of strings can be thought of as a mutable string type by its use, and then working with substrings in lists and using ''.join() will not seem as out of place.
as important is the observation that you don't necessarily have to join string lists; if the data ends up being sent over a wire or written to disk, you might as well skip the join step, and work directly from the list.
(it's no accident that ET has grown "tostringlist" and "fromstringlist" functions, for example ;-)
I've personally added a line-based abstraction with indent/dedent handling, etc., for the editor I use, which helps make macros and underlying editor functionality easier to write.
- Josiah