[Python-Dev] strop vs. string

[Tim Peters]

[Tim]
> Wait for what?  If it were possible, is the chance that you'd
> take time to rework unicodeobject.c to "subclass from a generic
> abstract string object" greater than 0?  The chance that I
> would is exactly 0.

[MAL]
> Well, that's hard to say. It would certainly be low-priority;
> same for the above refactoring.

I think you must have missed this when it first came up here:  /F suggested
that *he* had a non-zero chance of implementing his suggestion.  That makes
it far closer to reality than anything that's been suggested since <wink>.