[Python-ideas] unicodedata.itergraphemes (or str.itergraphemes / str.graphemes)

[David Kendal]

On 9 Jul 2013, at 17:51, Bruce Leban <bruce at leapyear.org> wrote:

> If you want to do any operation on the clusters other than in iteration
> order, without indexed access you're going to end up doing
> list(grapheme_clusters(...)) first to give you indexed access. Maybe that's
> the right thing to do sometimes but I wouldn't force it on people. The
> string already provides indexed access but I need to know cluster
> boundaries.

There's no reason the iterator returned can't be of a new type that allows indexing with the subscript operator.

> --- Bruce

dpk

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