Alternate string representation to the built-in str type.
- Uses C-string representation internally.
- Memory is allocated contiguously to reduce pointer-hopping.
- UTF-8 encoding.
- len returns size in bytes (not including terminating zero-byte).
- Random access (to bytes, not Unicode code points) is supported with indices and slices.
- Supports initialization from str, bytes, bytearray, array, memoryview, cstring, and other buffer protocol objects.
count(substring [,start [,end]])
See: https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#str.count
Notes:
- substring may be a cstring or Python str object.
- start and end, if provided, are byte indexes.
find(substring [,start [,end]])
See: https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#str.find
Notes:
- substring may be a cstring or Python str object.
- start and end, if provided, are byte indexes.
index(substring [,start [,end]])
See: https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#str.index
Notes:
- substring may be a cstring or Python str object.
- start and end, if provided, are byte indexes.
rfind(substring [,start [,end]])
See: https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#str.rfind
Notes:
- substring may be a cstring or Python str object.
- start and end, if provided, are byte indexes.
rindex(substring [,start [,end]])
See: https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#str.rindex
Notes:
- substring may be a cstring or Python str object.
- start and end, if provided, are byte indexes.
startswith(substring [,start [,end]])
See: https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#str.startswith
Notes:
- substring may be a cstring or Python str object.
- start and end, if provided, are byte indexes.
endswith(substring [,start [,end]])
See: https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#str.endswith
Notes:
- substring may be a cstring or Python str object.
- start and end, if provided, are byte indexes.
- Write docs (see str type docs)
- Write docstrings
- Fill out setup.py classifiers
- Implement iter (iterate over Unicode code points, "runes")
- Implement str methods
- Include start/end indexes as byte indexes? Calculate code points? Or just don't support?
- Implement buffer interface
- Decide subclassing protocol