[Python-Dev] Internal representation of strings and Micropython

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Paul Sokolovsky writes:

 > That kinda means "string is atomic", instead of your "characters are
 > atomic".

I would be very surprised if a language that behaved that way was
called a "Python subset".  No indexing, no slicing, no regexps, no
.split(), no .startswith(), no sorted() or .sort(), ...!?

If that's not what you mean by "string is atomic", I think you're
using very confusing terminology.