Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com>: > Perhaps we don't have the same understanding of "constant time". Or > are you saying that you actually store and represent this as those > arbitrary-precision integers? Every character of every string has to > be a multiprecision integer?
Yes, although feel free to optimize. The internal implementation isn't important but those "multiprecision" integers are part of an outward interface. So you could have: >>> for c in Text("aq̈u \U0001F64B\U0001F3FF\u200D\u2642\uFE0F"): ... print(c) ... 97 1895826184 117 32 5152920508016097895476141586773579 (Note, though, that Python3 only has integers, there's no "multiprecision" about them.) Marko -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list