Josh Rosenberg <shadowranger+pyt...@gmail.com> added the comment:
Not my use case specifically, but my link in the last post (repeated below) was to a StackOverflow answer to a problem where using buffer was simple and fast, but memoryview required annoying workarounds. Admittedly, in most cases it's people wanting to do this with strings, so in Python 3 it only actually works if you convert to bytes first (possibly wrapped in a memoryview cast to a larger width if you need to support ordinals outside the latin-1 range). But it seems a valid use case. Examples where rich comparisons were needed include: Effcient way to find longest duplicate string for Python (From Programming Pearls) - https://stackoverflow.com/a/13574862/364696 (which provides a side-by-side comparison of code using buffer and memoryview, and memoryview lost, badly) strcmp for python or how to sort substrings efficiently (without copy) when building a suffix array - https://stackoverflow.com/q/2282579/364696 (a case where they needed to sort based on potentially huge suffixes of huge strings, and didn't want to end up copying all of them) ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue20399> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
