On 10/15/07, Guido van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There's one thing that I forgot to add to PEP 3137. It's the removal > of the basestring type. I think this is a reasonable thing to do. > Christian Heimes has a patch that does this cleanly. Anyone objecting, > please speak up now!
I don't like replacing the abstract basestring with a concrete type in isinstance checks. I agree that the right answer is something in ABC, which may not need to be a builtin. Does tearing out basestring before adding that "something" (String?) cause any problems? -jJ _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
