[Python-ideas] What is happening with array.array('u') in Python 4?

[Chris Barker]

On Fri, May 8, 2015 at 5:50 AM, Stefan Behnel <stefan_ml at behnel.de> wrote:

> ISTM that your best bet is currently to look for a suitable module on PyPI
> that implements mutable character arrays. I'm sure you're not the only one
> who needs something like that. The usual suspect would be NumPy, but there
> may be smaller and simpler tools available.


Numpy does have mutable character arrays -- and the Unicode version uses
4bytes per char, regardless of platform (and so should array.array!)

But I don't think you get much of any of the features of strings, and I
doubt that the re module would work with it.

A "real" mutable string type might be pretty nice to have , but I think it
would be pretty hard to d to get it to do everything a string can do. (or
maybe not -- I suppose you could cut and paste the regular string cdce, and
simply add the mutable part....)

-Chris







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