[XML-SIG] Re: Issues with Unicode type

[Daniel Veillard]

On Mon, Sep 23, 2002 at 03:16:08PM -0600, Uche Ogbuji wrote:
> Oh, but then Python is so much simpler:
> 
>     
> SP_PAT = re.compile(u"[\uD800-\uDBFF][\uDC00-\uDFFF]")
> def smart_len(u):
>     sp_count = len(SP_PAT.findall(u))
>     return len(u) - sp_count
> 
> 
> Problem solved.

  modulo the space and CPU requirements for the operation (okay you can tell
I'm primarilly a C coder :-)

> The great thing about Python is even when it frustrates you one moment, it 
> finds a way to quickly make up for it.

  I don't think chars are classes but types, and hence one cannot
make a subclass of strings whose instances could have all length/walk/extract
operations being special cased to reflect XML unicode string. I (and Eric
I bet) would like to be wrong on this :-)

Daniel

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