On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 7:53 PM, Marko Rauhamaa <ma...@pacujo.net> wrote: > Here's a proposal: > > * introduce a building (predefined) class Text > > * conceptually, a Text object is a sequence of "real" characters > > * you can access each "real" character by its position in O(1) > > * the "real" character is defined to be a integer computed as follows > (in pseudo-Python): > > string = the NFC normal form of the real character as a string > rc = 0 > shift = 0 > for codepoint in string: > rc |= ord(codepoing) << shift > shift += 6 > return rc > > * t[n] evaluates to an integer
A string could consist of 1 base character and N-1 combining characters. Can you still access those combined characters in constant time? ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
