On 5/25/06, Sean Reifschneider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Conversion functions taking a start and end are the low-hanging fruit, but > I think in the long term something that does that described I would prefer. > I believe that Martin is expecting expecting to have something this week > to try.
I'm -1 on this. It adds considerable API complications for something that 99.99% of users can do without regrets by using a slice. Yes, I know regex and string searches already have this API complication. They have a much more important use case. I don't want every API that takes a string argument to also take slice arguments; then everybody ends up doing duplicate work. If you really need this for speed, I recommend you make it a custom extension. -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
