[Python-ideas] string codes & substring equality

[Greg Ewing]

Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 12:43:05PM +0100, spir wrote:
> 
>>Is it weird to consider a .code(i) string method? 
> 
> Such a method should not be called "code", since "ordinal" or "ord" is 
> the accepted term for it.

How about giving ord() an optional index parameter?

    ord(s, i)

would be equivalent to

    ord(s[i])

but would avoid creating an intermediate string
object.

-- 
Greg