[Python-Dev] Iterable String Redux (aka String ABC)

[Greg Ewing]

Guido van Rossum wrote:
> There are quite a few core APIs that accept no
> substitutes, and being an instance of basestring was intended to
> guarantee that a value is accepted by such APIs.

In that case, the idea of a user-defined string class
that doesn't inherit from str or unicode seems to be
a lost cause, since it will never be acceptable in
those places, whatever is done with ABCs.

-- 
Greg