[Python-Dev] Divorcing str and unicode (no more implicit conversions).

[Greg Ewing]

Guido van Rossum wrote:

> I think the API should reflect the representation *to some extend*,
> namely it shouldn't claim to have operations that are typically
> thought of as O(1) that can only be implemented as O(n).

Maybe a compromise could be reached by using a
btree of chunks or something, so indexing is
O(log n). Not as good as O(1) but a lot better
than O(n).

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