Le vendredi 8 mai 2015 12:29:15 UTC+2, Steven D'Aprano a écrit : > On Fri, 8 May 2015 07:14 pm, jonathan.slenders wrote: > > > Why is array.array('u') deprecated? > > > > Will we get an alternative for a character array or mutable unicode > > string? > > > Good question. > > Of the three main encodings for Unicode, two are variable-width: > > * UTF-8 uses 1-4 bytes per character > * UTF-16 uses 2 or 4 bytes per character > > while UTF-32 is fixed-width (4 bytes per character). So you could try faking > it with a 32-bit array and filling it with string.encode('utf-32').
I guess that doesn't work. I need to have something that I can pass to the re module for searching through it. Creating new strings all the time is no option. (Think about gigabyte strings.) -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list