Tim Chase <python.l...@tim.thechases.com> writes: > As mentioned elsewhere, I've got a LOT of code that expects that > string indexing is O(1) and rarely are those strings/offsets reused > I'm streaming through customer/provider data files, so caching > wouldn't do much good other than waste space and the time to maintain > them.
I'm having trouble understanding -- if they're only used once then what's the problem? You're reading some enormous file into a string and then randomly accessing it by character offset? What size are these strings? I can think of a number of workarounds including language extensions, but mostly I'd be interested in seeing some actual benchmarks of your unmodified program under both representations. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
