[issue10935] wsgiref.handlers.BaseHandler and subclasses of str

[Jean-Paul Calderone]

Jean-Paul Calderone <invalid at example.invalid> added the comment:

> Phillip, your argument about interfacing with code written in C doesn't work for built-in immutable types like str.

Sure it does.  Definitely-str is easier to handle in C than maybe-str-subclass.  It doesn't matter that str.__new__ gets called.  Other things might get called too, with who-knows-what side-effects.

wsgi is right to demand str and only str and exactly str.

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