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Re: Why is array.array('u') deprecated?

From Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de>
Subject Re: Why is array.array('u') deprecated?
Date 2015-05-08 13:35 +0200
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jonathan.slenders@gmail.com wrote:

> Le vendredi 8 mai 2015 12:29:15 UTC+2, Steven D'Aprano a écrit :
>> On Fri, 8 May 2015 07:14 pm, jonathan.slenders wrote:
>> 
>> > Why is array.array('u') deprecated?
>> > 
>> > Will we get an alternative for a character array or mutable unicode
>> > string?
>> 
>> 
>> Good question.
>> 
>> Of the three main encodings for Unicode, two are variable-width:
>> 
>> * UTF-8 uses 1-4 bytes per character
>> * UTF-16 uses 2 or 4 bytes per character
>> 
>> while UTF-32 is fixed-width (4 bytes per character). So you could try
>> faking it with a 32-bit array and filling it with
>> string.encode('utf-32').
> 
> 
> I guess that doesn't work. I need to have something that I can pass to the
> re module for searching through it. Creating new strings all the time is
> no option. (Think about gigabyte strings.)

Can you expand a bit on how array("u") helps here? Are the matches in the 
gigabyte range?

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Why is array.array('u') deprecated? jonathan.slenders@gmail.com - 2015-05-08 02:14 -0700
  Re: Why is array.array('u') deprecated? wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2015-05-08 02:37 -0700
  Re: Why is array.array('u') deprecated? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2015-05-08 20:29 +1000
    Re: Why is array.array('u') deprecated? jonathan.slenders@gmail.com - 2015-05-08 04:05 -0700
      Re: Why is array.array('u') deprecated? Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2015-05-08 13:35 +0200
        Re: Why is array.array('u') deprecated? jonathan.slenders@gmail.com - 2015-05-08 05:12 -0700
          Re: Why is array.array('u') deprecated? Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2015-05-08 15:11 +0200
            Re: Why is array.array('u') deprecated? jonathan.slenders@gmail.com - 2015-05-08 07:40 -0700
              Re: Why is array.array('u') deprecated? Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-05-11 08:03 +0100

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