On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 10:25 AM Christopher Barker <python...@gmail.com> wrote: > > As others have pointed out, the OP started in a bit of an oblique way, but > it maybe come down to this: > > There are some use-cases for a mutable string type. And one could certainly > write one. > > presto: here is one: > > https://github.com/Daniil-Kost/mutable_strings > > Which looks to me to be more a toy than anything, but maybe the author is > seriously using it... (it does look like it has a bug indexing if there are > non-ascii) > > And yet, as far as I know, there has never been one that was carefully > written and optimized, which would be a bit of a trick, because of how Python > strings handle Unicode. (it would have been a lot easier with Python2 :-) ) >
You mean, it's a lot easier to write bytearray? :) ChrisA _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/3DU6HB26CJRHQRZGJ73EBNN3ME3UZT6S/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
