[Python-3000] Poll: Lazy Unicode Strings For Py3k

[Jim Jewett]

On 1/31/07, Josiah Carlson <jcarlson at uci.edu> wrote:
> P.S. One of the reasons why I have been pushing for a wrapper, is
> primarily because I believe that the added complexity to the *base type*
> is too much, while a wrapper object would be free to do just about
> anything (with a sufficiently restricted meaning of 'anything').

What exactly do you mean by a wrapper?

Are you thinking of something like a 3rd-party library providing a
string-like object which doesn't claim to inherit from str, and has a
subtly different API?  That seems to get the bad from both choices,
and the good from neither.

-jJ