7 May
2015
7 May
'15
8:46 a.m.
On Wed, May 06, 2015 at 07:05:15PM -0700, Neil Girdhar wrote:
Since strings are constant, wouldn't it be much faster to implement string slices as a view of other strings?
String or list views would be *very* useful in situations like this: # Create a massive string s = "some string"*1000000 for c in s[1:]: process(c) which needlessly duplicates almost the entire string just to skip the first char. The same applies to lists or other sequences. But a view would be harmful in this situation: s = "some string"*1000000 t = s[1:2] # a view maskerading as a new string del s Now we keep the entire string alive long after it is needed. How would you solve the first problem without introducing the second? -- Steve