Implementing strings in python

[wzao1515]

Hi, I am interested in adding Windows support for part of my GSoC goal and I want to start with implementing strings and file in pure python. Intuitively this is not so hard, but I have a question for strings.

I think the naive way is to open a file, and then process it. The overhead of this method is obviously the memory consumption since it would read the whole file into memory at once. Therefore, my question is whether I should take large file into consideration or not worry about that. Thanks.

[PrajwalM2212]

Python provides readline function that you can use to read only one line at a time.

[pdxjohnny]

I suggest you take a look strings itself to see how it works. strings source code

Looks to me like it looks for valid ASCII and stops printing once...? The logic is here

[pdxjohnny]

Closed in #86

New issue made for file: #92