Terry J. Reedy added the comment:
Phil (and Todd): I do not know what you mean by "behaves like more like an
actual Text Widget" and whether you are talking about internal or external
behavior. But I know that tk does not use an immutable string to hold the text.
There is no such thing in C. Tk might use one array of 2-byte words with a gap
at the cursor and an auxiliary line pointer array, or it might use an array of
line structure similar to what I did (but again with arrays rather than
immutable strings for each line), or possibly some other structure, However we
could only imitate the internals of tk.Text by using (deprecated) PyUNICODE
arrays (see the array doc) and doing much more programming effort.
Re-splitting a single line over and over is too inefficient to consider for a
repository patch. I believe your particular indexToInt with getLine makes the
conversion O(n*n) instead of 'just' O(n), whereas keeping the line in split
form makes it O(1).
Side note, as far as I know, "re.split('\n', text)" (the r prefix is not needed
here) does the same thing as text.split('\n'). But it is slower and harder to
type. We don't use re when a string method does the same thing.
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