[Python-Dev] Iterable String Redux (aka String ABC)
Nick Coghlan
ncoghlan at gmail.com
Fri May 30 18:40:18 CEST 2008
Michael Foord wrote:
> I would be strongly +1 on a string ABC. Currently (to my knowledge)
> there is no way of using duck typing for built-in APIs that expect a
> string. How do I pass in an object to 'open' for example that isn't
> actually a string or subclass?
Implement the character buffer API, which you can't actually do from
Python code :P
Cheers,
Nick.
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