[Python-ideas] Keyword/Symbol literals

[Alexander Belopolsky]

On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 5:18 PM, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz>
wrote:

> Alexander Belopolsky wrote:
>
>>
>> Why can't we make interned strings a subclass of strings like bool is a
>> subclass of int?
>>
>
> Because a string can change from being non-interned to
> being interned at some point in its life.


I did not know that.  Can you show the code that would cause such a change?
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