On Thu, May 07, 2015 at 02:26:06PM -0400, Terry Reedy wrote:
On 5/7/2015 11:46 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
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)
Easily done without slicing, as discussed on python-list multiple times.
For some definition of "easy". If all you want is to skip the first item, this is not too bad:
it = iter(s) next(it) for c in it: process(c)
Skipping the *last* item, on the other hand? for c in s[:-1]: process(c) Yes, it can be done, but its even messier and uglier and a sequence view would make it neat and pretty: it = iter(s) prev = next(it) for c in it: process(prev) prev = c
for s[5555: 399999], use explicit indexes for i in range(5555, 400000): process s[i]
What, are we programming in Fortran, like some sort of Neanderthal? *grins* The point isn't that we cannot solve these problems without views, but that views would let us solve them in a clean Pythonic manner. -- Steve