Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] whatever happened to string.partition ?

2006-05-25 Thread skip
>> skip? was this a real design or a Py3K bluesky idea? Just about nothing I do is a real design. I don't remember the weather conditions that day either. I was probably just noodling around based upon discussions on python-dev that were mutated in my brain by gamma rays from Alpha Centau

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] whatever happened to string.partition ?

2006-05-25 Thread Guido van Rossum
On 5/25/06, Fredrik Lundh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Raymond Hettinger wrote: > > > IIRC, Skip had developed a smart version that returned lazy string > > objects that kept a reference and pointers to the original string > > (instead of making its own copy of the string components). The string

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] whatever happened to string.partition ?

2006-05-25 Thread Raymond Hettinger
Fredrik Lundh wrote: Yes. It went to my todo list and is awaiting some free raymond-cycles to finish it up. I've been task saturated of late but would like to get this a number of other patches complete for Py2.5. no need to wait for any raymond-cycles here; just point me