Re: [Pyobjc-dev] Bridging strings from Python to other languages

[Just v. R. <ju...@le...>]

Bill Bumgarner wrote:

> In general, I would like to see Python move in the direction of 
> supporting <character buffers> in an analagous/interchangeable fashion 
> with <string>.   This would make integration with external tools a lot 
> easier.

To a large extent this already works for 8-bit strings, but I don't see
an easy solution for unicode that doesn't depend on a specific format of
the backing store.


I'll try to write a proposal regarding __immutablecopy__, which btw.
needs a __temporaryimmutable__ counterpart for efficient membership
testing (this would return a thin wrapper what would compare and hash
equally to the real thing, yet no copy is made). This latter idea I just
saw in sets.py: neat.

Just