[Python-ideas] Adding str.isascii() ?

[INADA Naoki]

We have _PyUnicodeWriter for such use cases.
We may able to expose it as public API, but please start another thread
for it.

Unicode created by wrong maxchar is not supported from Python 3.3.
== and hash() doesn't work properly for such unicode object.
So str.isascii() has not to support it too.

>
> The create, write data, resize approach is a standard way to build
> (longer) Pythhon string objects in the Python C API, since it
> avoids temporary copies.
>
> E.g. you don't want to first build a buffer to hold 100MB XML,
> then scan it for the max code point being used, create a python
> string from it (which copies the data into a second 100MB
> buffer) and then deallocate the first buffer again.
>
> Instead you create an uninitialized Python Unicode object
> and use PyUnicde_WRITE() to write the data directly into
> the object, avoiding the 100MB temp buffer.
>
> PS: Strings are immutable in Python, but they are not in C.
> You can manipulate string objects provided you own the only
> reference.
>
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