Marc-Andre Lemburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: Yes, all those objections apply to the string type as well. The fact that strings are variable length objects makes it impossible to do apply any of the possible optimizations I mentioned. If strings were a fixed length object, it would have been possible to write a true basestring object from which both 8-bit strings and Unicode subclass, making a lot of things easier.
BTW: Please also see ticket #2321 to see how the change affects your benchmarks. __________________________________ Tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.python.org/issue1943> __________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
