string storage [was: Re: imaplib: is this really so unwieldy?]

[Alan Gauld]

On 26/05/2021 14:09, Tim Chase wrote:

>> If so, doesn't that introduce a pretty big storage overhead for
>> large strings?
> 
> Yes.  Though such large strings tend to be more rare, largely because
> they become unweildy for other reasons.

I do have some scripts that work on large strings - mainly produced by
reading an entire text file into a string using file.read(). Some of
these are several MB long so potentially now 4x bigger than I thought.
But you are right, even a 100MB string should still be OK on a
modern PC with 8GB+ RAM!...

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