Re: [Jython-dev] stringbuffer.py

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[Ype Kingma]

>I'll take a look at tje UserString.MutableString class.
>I've been wondering about the difference between a normal module
>and a standard module, 

Probably sloppy word usage on my part, but by "standard modules" I meant
the modules that are distributed with Jython.

Technically there are no difference.

>>The last count method will validate the start/end indexes so the
>>sys.maxint trick also works.
>
>I guess the trick is to move the real work to the java side as
>much as possible.

Yes.

>A good reason to upgrade. Is there a good reason to go beyond 2.0
>at this moment?

The NEWS from CVS contains:

xx-xxx-2001 Jython 2.1 alpha 1

  New features.
   - Improve speed when indexing a string and iterating over a string
     in a for loop.
   - Reworked coercing model (pep-0208)
   - Added {}.popitem().
   - Improved speed for python files by buffering the RandomAccessFile.
   - Added function attributes (pep-0232)
   - Rich comparison (pep-0207)
   - Updated cPickle to handle CPython compatible unicode strings.
   - Updated sre to CPython-2.1a1
   - Added the "new" module

  Bug fixes.
   - Allow self referencing adapters to be collected when using weak
     tables.
   - Added workaround for a reader bug in MRJ22Jitc.01.


regards,
finn