Editable strings anyone?

[Paul Rubin]

"Jason Orendorff" <jason at jorendorff.com> writes:
> > that has multiple segments and implements the buffer interface.
> > Then the re module can be extended to handle the buffer interface,
> > if it doesn't handle it already.
> 
> Someone may have mentioned this before, but I think you would have
> to sneakily close the gap whenever the re module asks you for your
> buffer pointer, because re needs a contiguous buffer.  See:

Yes, that's why the re module would have to be extended--to handle
noncontiguous segments.  The GNU regexp library already has an API
for that and it shouldn't be that hard to add something similar
to Python's re library.