> But when you get right down to it, what I do for a living is write web applications, That is my use case for Python as well. > sometimes I have to write val

> But when you get right down to it, what I do for a living is write web applications, That is my use case for Python as well. > sometimes I have to write validation that cares about length, That's where a trucation function that understands grapheme clusters whould come in so handy. Tell it that you want to truncate to n bytes maximum and let it chop a bit more as to not split a grapheme cluster. Fortunately my database does not have fixed with strings so I rarely bump into this one. > or about finding specific things in specific positions, and so indexing into a string is something I have do to from time to time I write my code to avoid this. Yes I still have to use an index because that's what Python supports but it would be trivial to convert it to another language that supports string iterators.