[Urwid] Optimize urwid

[Victor Stinner]

Le Vendredi 29 Décembre 2006 15:43, Ian Ward a écrit :
> Victor Stinner wrote:
> > ====================== 8< ========================================
> > def _get_width( o ):
> >     global widths
> >     if o == 0xe or o == 0xf:
> >         return 0
> >     for num, wid in widths:
> >         if o <= num:
> >             return wid
> >     return 1
> > def get_width( o ):
> >     """Return the screen column width for unicode ordinal o."""
> >     global _get_width_cache
> >     if o not in _get_width_cache:
> >         _get_width_cache[o] = _get_width(o)
> >     return _get_width_cache[o]
> > ====================== 8< ========================================
> >
> > In my program, the cache has 71 entries. That's small ;-)
>
> That's madness! :-)  Instead of storing the entire string (...)

o is an Unicode character (an integer), not a string!

> > Manipulate UTF-8 is complex. In general, it would be a better idea to
> > only store Unicode string, and convert to UTF-8 when text is written in
> > the terminal.
>
> Yes, that is the recommended approach when writing Python programs.  I
> chose to be more accepting, since I'm writing a library for other
> programmers to use.

I have to check if my program speak UTF-8 to urwid or Unicode... I think that 
I convert strings just before sending them to urwid. So that's stupid :)

> > And also:
> >   http://excess.org/urwid/ticket/2
> >   C code for performance critical sections
>
> I believe that Rebecca Breu has done some work on this.  I hope she
> finds some time to post her work, I'd like to try it out.

Cool, I may help on this code.

Haypo
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