[Python-Dev] Slice as a copy... by design?

[Nick Coghlan]

Greg Ewing wrote:
> Some way of explicitly requesting a view into another
> string might be desirable, but it shouldn't be the
> default behaviour for string slicing.

Backporting 3.0's memoryview to 2.6 would be the way to go about that.

Cheers,
Nick.

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