[Python-Dev] Internal representation of strings and Micropython

[Mark Lawrence]

On 04/06/2014 16:32, Steve Dower wrote:
>
> If copying into a separate list is a problem (memory-wise), re.finditer('\\S+', string) also provides the same behaviour and gives me the sliced string, so there's no need to index for anything.
>

Out of idle curiosity is there anything that stops MicroPython, or any 
other implementation for that matter, from providing views of a string 
rather than copying every time?  IIRC memoryviews in CPython rely on the 
buffer protocol at the C API level, so since strings don't support this 
protocol you can't take a memoryview of them.  Could this actually be 
implemented in the future, is the underlying C code just too 
complicated, or what?

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Mark Lawrence

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