"Jim Jewett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 8/26/06, Josiah Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Nick Coghlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > There are a couple of existing workarounds for > > > this: buffer() objects, and the start/stop arguments > > > to a variety of string methods. Neither of these is > > > particular convenient to work with, and buffer() is > > > slated to go away in Py3k. > > > Ahh, but string views offer a significantly more > > reasonable mechanism. > > As I understand it, Nick is suggesting that slice objects be used as a > sequence (not just string) view.
I'm not sure there is a compelling use-case for offering views on general ordered sequences (lists). Unicode and bytes strings, sure, but I don't think I've ever really been hurting for faster/more memory efficient list slicing... Maybe I'm strange. - Josiah _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
