[Python-Dev] Implementation of variable sized objects.

[Eric Smith]

On 3/9/2011 7:55 AM, Mark Shannon wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I hope this is the right place to ask this.
>
> Do anyone know why the str (unicode) object is implemented
> with an external buffer like list, rather than internal one like
> tuple and bytes?
> Would anything bad happen if it were changed?
>
> I'm not suggesting any changes, just doing some research.

See http://bugs.python.org/issue1943

Eric.