Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org> added the comment: To me, making (default) iteration deviate from indexing is anathema.
However, there is nothing wrong with providing a library function that takes a string and returns an iterator that iterates over code points, joining surrogate pairs as needed. You could even have one that iterates over characters (I think Tom calls them graphemes), if that is well-defined and useful. ---------- title: Python lib re cannot handle Unicode properly due to narrow/wide bug -> Python lib re cannot handle Unicode properly due to narrow/wide bug _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue12729> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
