From: Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org>
Date: Wed, 6 Mar 1991 13:15:02 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Optimized stringitem.
X-Git-Tag: v0.9.8~1025
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=b6a6bdc7db54c684646f3cc3c537e8c62293986d;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

Optimized stringitem.
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diff --git a/Objects/stringobject.c b/Objects/stringobject.c
index cb04d949a543..9b11f9279dca 100644
--- a/Objects/stringobject.c
+++ b/Objects/stringobject.c
@@ -246,11 +246,23 @@ stringitem(a, i)
 	stringobject *a;
 	register int i;
 {
+	/* This is optimized since this is a common operation! */
+
+	register stringobject *op;
 	if (i < 0 || i >= a->ob_size) {
 		err_setstr(IndexError, "string index out of range");
 		return NULL;
 	}
-	return stringslice(a, i, i+1);
+	op = (stringobject *)
+		malloc(sizeof(stringobject) + sizeof(char));
+	if (op == NULL)
+		return err_nomem();
+	NEWREF(op);
+	op->ob_type = &Stringtype;
+	op->ob_size = 1;
+	op->ob_sval[0] = a->ob_sval[i];
+	op->ob_sval[1] = '\0';
+	return (object *) op;
 }
 
 static int