From: Stefan Behnel on
Mike 'Fuzzy' Partin, 21.05.2010 08:37:
> Optimized String-like Object is kind of a misnomer in that, the object
> provided is a subclass of the base str type, adding optimized (Cython
> bindings to the standard (POSIX) libc regex and string functions)
> match() and sub() methods.

Hi,

could you give an idea what the advantage of this package is? Why would one
want to use it?

Also, while the main class is a subclass of str, it doesn't take advantage
of that fact at all.

Stefan