From: David Flanagan <david@...>
Date: 2007-02-06T12:28:12+09:00
Subject: Re: String.ord

Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> In message "Re: String.ord"
>     on Tue, 6 Feb 2007 07:03:05 +0900, David Flanagan <david@davidflanagan.com> writes:
> 
> |Does anyone (Matz?) know why the (new in 1.9) String.ord method is 
> |restricted to one-character Strings?
> 
> I just followed Python convention here.

Ah ha.  I don't know Python well enough, or maybe I would have realized 
that.

It still seems to me that there ought to be a way to get the 1.8 
behavior in a single method call rather than having to call [] and then 
call ord on the result.  If you don't want to modify ord to accept an 
index, Would you consider ordAt(x) or codepoint(x) or something like that?

	David

>>>> ord("a")
> 97
>>>> ord("abc")
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
> TypeError: ord() expected a character, but string of length 3 found
> 
> Besides that, raising exception may help us find bugs earlier.
> Any opinion?
> 
> 							matz.
> 
>