On 6/4/2014 6:54 PM, Serhiy Storchaka wrote: > 05.06.14 00:21, Terry Reedy написав(ла): >> On 6/4/2014 3:41 AM, Jeff Allen wrote: >>> Jython uses UTF-16 internally -- probably the only sensible choice in a >>> Python that can call Java. Indexing is O(N), fundamentally. By >>> "fundamentally", I mean for those strings that have not yet noticed that >>> they contain no supplementary (>0xffff) characters. >> >> Indexing can be made O(log(k)) where k is the number of astral chars, >> and is usually small. > > I like your idea and think it would be great if Jython will implement > it. A proof of concept implementation in Python that handles both indexing and slicing is on the tracker. It is simpler than I initially expected. > Unfortunately it is too late to do this in CPython. I mentioned it as an alternative during the '393 discussion. I more than half agree that the FSR is the better choice for CPython, which had no particular attachment to UTF-16 in the way that I think Jython, for instance, does. -- Terry Jan Reedy
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