[Python-Dev] bytes / unicode

[Greg Ewing]

R. David Murray wrote:

> Having such a poly_str type would probably make my life easier.

A thought on this poly_str type: perhaps it could be
called "ascii", since that's what it would have to be
restricted to, and have

   a'xxx'

as a literal syntax for it, seeing as literals seem to
be one of its main use cases.

> I also would like just vent a little frustration at having to
> use single-character-slice notation when I want to index a character
> in a string in my algorithms....

Thinking way outside the square, and probably the pale
as well, maybe @ could be pressed into service as an
infix operator, with

   s at i

being equivalent to

   s[i:i+1]

-- 
Greg