twisted.spread.util.StringPager.nextPage makes tons of string copies

[Jean-Paul Calderone]

Turning StringPager into a zero-copy pager is easy:

Index: util.py
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/Twisted/twisted/spread/util.py,v
retrieving revision 1.12
diff -u -r1.12 util.py
--- util.py     15 Jan 2004 04:04:40 -0000      1.12
+++ util.py     8 Mar 2004 01:15:48 -0000
@@ -139,7 +139,7 @@
         Pager.__init__(self, collector, callback, *args, **kw)
 
     def nextPage(self):
-        val = self.string[self.pointer:self.pointer+self.chunkSize]
+        val = buffer(self.string, self.pointer, self.pointer + self.chunkSize)
         self.pointer += self.chunkSize
         if self.pointer >= len(self.string):
             self.stopPaging()

[Glyph]

Is buffer() really going to stay around in future Python releases?

[Jean-Paul Calderone]

This seems stupid, in retrospect.