Hi, Sometimes people complain about guile string handling, that it is heavy and that it does some interpretation of the characters. The answer is that you should use bytevecors and then you hear that bytevectors containing char codes does not have all the fetaures string has.
If you use python-on-guile you do have the python bytevector interface and almost all string functions are available. Furthermore I landed yesterday bytevector support for the python regexp module so that you can now intyerpret bytevectors with regexpes as well (use the ASCII flag). To note, I use a PEG parser to manage the regular expressions and it's slow. You can use the stis-paser directly and get some speedup using cuts however. This to enable a maintainable and quick implementation. Any patch that speeds the regexp engine is most welcome. Happy hacking!
