18 Jul
2012
18 Jul
'12
6:16 p.m.
On 2012-07-18, at 20:06 , Devin Jeanpierre wrote:
On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 1:58 PM, Masklinn <masklinn@masklinn.net> wrote:
A Python string, you may want to note, is a string. Not a sequence of characters.
It's both (with the caveat that, in Python, a character is just a string of length 1).
That's playing with words, especially comparing strings with Python 3 binaries which *do* actually have a separate "character" type (reified to an integer). So Python strings don't have reified characters, a string's item and a slice of size 1 are essentially identical which is pretty much unique to them (as far as my knowledge of Python's sequences go). Which is not a bad thing, mind you, it makes working with strings much more pleasant.