[Python-Dev] Crazy idea for str.join

[Thomas Heller]

Fredrik Lundh wrote:
> Josiah Carlson wrote:
> 
>> At least for the examples of buffers that I've seen, using the buffer
>> interface for objects that support it is equivalent to automatically
>> applying str() to them.  This is, strictly speaking, an optimization.
> 
>     >>> a = array.array("i", [1, 2, 3])
>     >>> str(a)
>     "array('i', [1, 2, 3])"
>     >>> str(buffer(a))
>     '\x01\x00\x00\x00\x02\x00\x00\x00\x03\x00\x00\x00'

or:

thomas at tubu:~$ python2.4
Python 2.4.2 (#2, Sep 30 2005, 22:19:27)
[GCC 4.0.2 20050808 (prerelease) (Ubuntu 4.0.1-4ubuntu8)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> str(buffer(u"abc"))
'a\x00\x00\x00b\x00\x00\x00c\x00\x00\x00'
>>>

Thomas