Why don't strings share data in Python?

[Piet van Oostrum]

>>>>> "Chris Gonnerman" <chris.gonnerman at newcenturycomputers.net> (CG) writes:

CG> If you mean, why don't substrings share space with parent strings,
CG> hmm, that's an interesting question.  I can see that a string object
CG> implemented something like this struct:

CG>     struct ExampleString {
CG>         int len;
CG>         char *buf;
CG>     }

CG> would allow that, and it sounds like an interesting optimization. 

But it would make garbage collection harder.
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