On Sat, Sep 7, 2013 at 1:46 AM, Piet van Oostrum <p...@vanoostrum.org> wrote: > The FSR simply stores a Unicode string as an array[*] of ints (the Unicode > code points of the characters of the string. That's it. Then it uses a > memory-efficient way to store this array of ints. But that has nothing to do > with character sets. The same principle could be used for any array of ints.
Python does, in fact, store integers in different-sized blocks of memory according to size - though not for anything smaller than 32-bit. >>> sys.getsizeof(100) 14 >>> sys.getsizeof(1000000000000000000000000000000000) 28 So why this is suddenly a bad thing for characters is a mystery none but he can comprehend. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
