[Tutor] 'slice', etc

[Mark Lawrence]

On 07/12/2013 10:41, spir wrote:
> On 12/07/2013 02:45 AM, Mark Lawrence wrote:
>> The good news is there is a memoryview in Python, see
>> http://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#func-memoryview.  The
>> bad news
>> is it doesn't work on strings. See here for the slice object
>> http://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#slice.
>
> Thank you, Mark, I'll have a look at memoryview, seems interesting anyway.
>
> Denis
>

I've just remembered that one distinct disadvantage of memoryviews is 
that you can't use them anywhere if you want to do any sorting, as you 
can't compare them :(

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Mark Lawrence