JUNE 28TH, 2014Tweet This article describes how Python string interning works in CPython 2.7.7. A few days ago, I had to explain to a colleague what the built-in function intern does. I gave him the following example: >>> s1 = 'foo!' >>>…
Incomputer science, string interning is a method of storing only onecopy of each distinct string value, which must be immutable. Interning strings makes some stringprocessing tasks more time- or space-efficient at the cost of requiring moretime when…
http://www.laurentluce.com/posts/python-string-objects-implementation/ Python string objects implementation June 19, 2011 This article describes how string objects are managed by Python internally and how string search is done. PyStringObject structu…