imaplib: is this really so unwieldy?

[Chris Angelico]

On Fri, May 28, 2021 at 4:04 AM Peter J. Holzer <hjp-python at hjp.at> wrote:
>
> On 2021-05-26 08:34:28 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote:
> > Yes, any given string has a single width, which makes indexing fast.
> > The memory cost you're describing can happen, but apart from a BOM
> > widening an otherwise-ASCII string to 16-bit, there aren't many cases
> > where you'll get a single wide character in a narrow string.
>
> A single emoji in a long English text.
>
> > Usually, if there are any wide characters, there'll be a good number
> > of them
>
> Oh, right. People who use emoji usually use a lot of them 😉.
>
>

Exactly :) I can easily imagine a short block of text with just one
(say, a single email), but if you have a gigabyte or even a couple
hundred meg of text, the chances of *a single* emoji become
vanishingly slim.

ChrisA