On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 6:24 PM, jmfauth <wxjmfa...@gmail.com> wrote: > An editor may reflect very well the example a gave. You enter > thousand ascii chars, then - boum - as you enter a non ascii > char, your editor (assuming is uses a mechanism like the FSR), > has to internally reencode everything!
That assumes that the editor stores the entire buffer as a single Python string. Frankly, I think this unlikely; the nature of insertions and deletions makes this impractical. (I've known editors that do function this way. They're utterly unusable on large files.) ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
