[Python-Dev] "".tokenize() ?

[Guido van Rossum]

> Ok. I rejected the patch with a mild response to take on this by
> subclassing strings in Python 2.2 ;-)

Gustavo didn't take the rejection well.  He contacted me asking for a
better explanation, and we got into a bit of an argument about how
much I must explain my decisions, but I think hge understands now.

> If I here no strong objections, I'll check in the .decode()
> method next week.

Yes, see my previous reply.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)