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Re: Unicode and Python - how often do you index strings?

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On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 11:11 AM, Tim Chase
<python.list@tim.thechases.com> wrote:
> I then take row 2 and use it to make a mapping of header-name to a
> slice-object for slicing the subsequent strings:
>
>       slice(i.start(), i.end())
>
>     print("EmpID = %s" % row[header_map["EMPID"]].strip())
>     print("Name = %s" % row[header_map["NAME"]].strip())
>
> which I presume uses string indexing under the hood.

Yes, it's definitely going to be indexing. If strings were represented
internally in UTF-8, each of those calls would need to scan from the
beginning of the string, counting and discarding characters until it
finds the place to start, then counting and retaining characters until
it finds the place to stop. Definite example of what I'm looking for,
thanks!

ChrisA

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Re: Unicode and Python - how often do you index strings? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-06-04 12:16 +1000

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