[Python-ideas] strings as iterables - from str.startswith taking any iterator instead of just tuple

[Mark Lawrence]

On 03/01/2014 03:54, Alexander Heger wrote:
>
> Generally, I find strings being iterables of characters as useful as
> if integers were iterables of bits.  They should just be units.  They
> already start out being not mutable.  I think it would be a positive
> design change for Python 4 to make them units instead of being
> iterables.  At least for me, there is much fewer applications where
> the latter is useful than where it requires extra code.  Overall, it
> makes the language less clean that a string is an iterable; a special
> case we always have to code around.
>

I find your terminology misleading.  A string is a sequence in the same 
way that list, tuple, range, bytes, bytearray and memoryview are.

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Mark Lawrence