Python: Lazy String Decoding

Question

I am writing a parser and there are many texts for decoding, but most of my users will only care about a few fields from all the data. Therefore, I want to do only decoding when the user really uses some data. Is this a good way to do this?

class LazyString(str):
    def __init__(self, v) :
        self.value = v
    def __str__(self) :
        r = ""
        s = self.value
        for i in xrange(0, len(s), 2) :
            r += chr(int(s[i:i+2], 16))
        return r

def p_buffer(p):
    """buffer : HASH chars"""
    p[0] = LazyString(p[2])

Is this the only method I need to override?

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class mystr(str):
    def __init__(self, value):
        self.value = value
        self._decoded = None
    @property
    def decoded(self):
        if self._decoded == None:
            self._decoded = self.value.decode("hex")
            return self._decoded
    def __repr__(self):
        return self.decoded
    def __len__(self):
        return len(self.decoded)
    def __getitem__(self, i):
        return self.decoded.__getitem__(i)
    def __getslice__(self, i, j):
        return self.decoded.__getslice__(i, j)

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>>> s = mystr('a0a1a2')
>>> s
 ¡¢
>>> len(s)
3
>>> s.capitalize()
'A0a1a2'

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def lazy(v):
    for i in xrange(0, len(v), 2):
        yield int(v[i:i+2], 16)

list(lazy("0a0a0f"))
Out: [10, 10, 15]

Answer 3

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s =  "i am a string!".encode('hex')
# what you do
r = ""
for i in xrange(0, len(s), 2) :
    r += chr(int(s[i:i+2], 16))
# but decoding is builtin
print r==s.decode('hex') # => True

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class DB(object): # dunno what data it is ;)
    def __init__(self, data):
        self.data = data
        self.decoded = {} # maybe cache if the field data is long
    def __getitem__(self, name):
        try:
            return self.decoded[name]
        except KeyError:
            # this copies the fields data
            self.decoded[name] = ret = self.data[ self._get_field_slice( name ) ].decode('hex')
            return ret
    def _get_field_slice(self, name):
        # find out what part to decode, return the index in the data
        return slice( ... )

db = DB(encoded_data)    
print db["some_field"] # find out where the field is, get its data and decode it

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