[Python-Dev] Re: Automatic flex interface for Python?

[Fredrik Lundh]

greg wrote:

> > It's an implementation problem.  You find yourself doing a lot of=20
> > string accessing and pasting, creating several new objects per
> > input char.
>=20
> Not necessarily! Plex manages to do it without any
> of that.
>
> The trick is to leave all the characters in the input
> buffer and just *count* how many characters make up
> the next token.

you can do that without even looking at the characters?

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